The hat has never been silent. Long before women could vote, hold property, or speak in rooms that mattered, they wore their stories on their heads: layered, adorned, and deliberately composed. Feathers signaled wealth when wealth was the only currency of influence. Veils marked devotion in spaces where devotion was the only acceptable ambition. Church crowns carried cultural memory when culture was the only thing that couldn't be legislated away. Across every era of suppression, women found the hat and made it speak.
“To The Brim" forecasts the return of this language, not as nostalgia, but as continuation. As “self-medallioning”. Hats are still safe within the confines of femininity, but show a visual solidarity with older generations
This is a love letter to the resilience and radiance of women, to the quiet, unshakable brilliance that lives in sisters, mothers, and friends.
It is a celebration of those who nurture without applause, who lead without permission, who shine even when no one is watching. It honors the courage it takes to show up, again and again, and the profound, transformative power of women who choose to lift one another higher.
At its heart, this is a reflection on the beauty and depth of female connection, a tapestry woven from shared experience, unspoken understanding, and unwavering support. It speaks to the invisible labor women carry: the emotional weight, the mental lists, the balancing of worlds both seen and unseen. The expectation to be everything, everywhere, for everyone, and still, somehow, to remain whole.
And yet, within that weight, there is something extraordinary. A quiet force. A collective strength. Because it has always taken a village and women have always been its foundation, its rhythm, its backbone.
Women of wisdom
the Team
Models: Andreana Joyce & Riley Rodruiguez
Photographer: Hannah Zimmermann
Stylists/Creative direction: Lydia Prezioso & Bria Luzi
Glam: Lydia Prezioso
Hats: Eden Meidl, Lydia Prezioso & Bria Luzi