Madame Le Brun was among the most celebrated milliners in Regency London. Based in Berkeley Square, she served an elite clientele and stocked one of the city's largest selections of fine fabrics, laces, and trims.

In all honesty, Le Brun nearly didn’t make the cut for the magazine. But the imagery the .ai produced haunted me. A small part of my aesthetic brain became caught on the power of adornment, especially when struck by the Edwardian feel of what had been generated. It is a full century away from the Regency, yet so compellingly beautiful that I couldn’t look away.

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Perhaps I was haunted because I was never a hat wearer myself—until London milliner Philip Treacy gifted me a fedora. Wearing it, I began to understand the true power of adornment. It wasn’t for warmth or shade. It was a statement. And it was transportive. The hat was a modern interpretation of the fedora, but in wearing it, I felt carried somewhere else in time.

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The logotype is also a quiet thank you to the Jane Austen Society of America, whose resources continue to support discoveries like this. Readers interested in more about Madame Le Brun’s remarkable career may enjoy the research shared by the All Things Regency blog.