Frederick Fox (milliner)

One of nine children, Fox was born in Urana, New South Wales and began assembling and making hats from the age of nine. ==Millinery==

Fox joined Mitzi Lorenz from Otto Lucas, then went to Langée in Brook Street, Mayfair. When he died in December 2013, numerous sources cited the pink hat with 25 fabric bells that the Queen wore to mark her Silver Jubilee at a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral as Fox's most famous design for the Queen. But it was confirmed by the Royal Collection Trust in August 2016 to be the work of Simone Mirman. In films, Fox designed the white "crash helmets" worn in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1969) and hats for The Great Muppet Caper (1981) and Evil Under the Sun (1982). ==Honours and assessment==

In 1999, Fox was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order, and in 2013 he was named Australian of the Year in the UK. Fox was president of the Millinery Trades Benevolent Association and an honorary patron of the Australian Millinery Association. The Royal Mail stamp collection issued for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee featured four images of Queen Elizabeth wearing Fox's hats. ==Retirement and death==

Despite his retirement in 2002, Fox occasionally made hats for his most established clients. Jones wrote that When I first started in hats, Freddie was the person in London and the greatest milliner there was...His hats had balance and they were never too heavy. He created hats for women who wore hats all day, and they could just forget about them once they put one on...He made hats that became part of the person; they never jarred...He had such an air of refinement about everything that he did; he had tremendous class and never did anything that was too much. ==References==