It’s a crisp, sunny morning in late March, 40 days until the Kentucky Derby.
I’m in a small midtown Manhattan studio, in a showroom filled to the brim with towers of handmade hats. One of the projects on this week’s docket: A hat requiring 150 handmade silk roses, one for each year of the Kentucky Derby’s unbroken history. Each rose is individually cut and sewn here on site.
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“We’ve made 44 roses so far,” says Carol Sulla, director of operations and sales for Christine A. Moore Millinery.
Which leaves “only” 106 roses to be sewn before the first Saturday in May.
Christine Moore is the woman behind many of the Derby’s most coveted
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