Our Newest Featured Headdress

Jun 22, 2024 | CELEBRITY, EVENTS, NEW PRODUCTS, NEWS, PREMIERE

Custom-made headdress made of turkey feathers and Swarovski crystals.

Read more about Arturo's growing list of celebrity clientele here.

Lady Gaga's current Las Vegas residency is called "Jazz & Piano". It's a stripped-down, intimate show where she performs jazz standards and reimagined versions of her hits. The residency runs at Dolby Live at Park MGM through July 6, 2024.

This is actually her fourth residency in Las Vegas. Her first residency, "Lady Gaga Enigma + Jazz & Piano", ran from December 2018 to November 2019 and featured two distinct shows: Enigma, a high-energy, theatrical show with her biggest hits; and Jazz & Piano, a more stripped-down show with jazz standards and reimagined versions of her songs.

A Comprehensive List of Hat Styles

May 22, 2024 | CLASSIC FORMS COLLECTION, FORM, HISTORY, REFERENCE

Global Hats

Arturo creates some very specific hats. Fascinators, discs, pillboxes. And Arturo is very knowledgeable about millenery in depth.

But, we're impressed by this list of the types of hats found around the world.

An Upe? It's made from tightly weaved straw. Salakot? A traditional Phillipines hat. A Börk is not very similar to an Icelandic singer but is, instead, worn by devout Jannisaries during the Ottoman Empire.

Read on:

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2024 Belmont Stakes

May 13, 2024 | EVENTS, HORSE RACING, NEWS

Belmont Stakes 2024

The 2024 Belmont Stakes will be the 156th running of the Belmont Stakes, scheduled for June 8, 2024. This will be the first time the event will take place at Saratoga Race Course, due to renovations planned for Belmont Park.

156th Belmont Stakes
Grade I stakes race
Location: Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, New York, United States
Date: June 8, 2024
Distance: 1+1⁄4 mi (10 furlongs; 2,012 m)

The 2024 Belmont Stakes will be the 156th running of the Belmont Stakes, scheduled for June 8, 2024. This will be the first time the event will take place at Saratoga Race Course, due to renovations planned for Belmont Park.^[1] Due to the smaller size of Saratoga's main track, the race is scheduled to be run at 1+1⁄4 miles (10 furlongs; 2,012 metres), shorter than the usual distance of 1+1⁄2 miles (12 furlongs; 2,414 metres).

On December 8, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a US$ 455 million renovation plan for Belmont Park in Elmont, New York which would move the Belmont Stakes to Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York for the interim, with construction expected to last into 2025. The prize purse has been increased from $1.5 million to $2 million.

The most recent time a Belmont Stakes was not held at Belmont Park was when it was held at Aqueduct Race Track in Ozone Park, Queens from 1963 to 1967, the last time Belmont Park was under construction.

Preakness Race

May 10, 2024 | HISTORY, HORSE RACING

Two years before the Kentucky Derby was run for the first time, Pimlico introduced its new stakes race for three-year-olds, the Preakness, during its first spring race meet in 1873.

Then Maryland governor Oden Bowie named the then mile and one-half (2.41 km) race in honor of the colt Preakness from Milton Holbrook Sanford's Preakness Stud in Preakness, Wayne Township, New Jersey, who won the Dinner Party Stakes on the day Pimlico opened (October 25, 1870). The New Jersey name was said to have come from the Native American name Pra-qua-les ("Quail Woods") for the area. After Preakness won the Dinner Party Stakes, his jockey, Billy Hayward, untied a silk bag of gold coins that hung from a wire stretched across the track from the judges' stand. This was the supposed way that the "wire" at the finish line was introduced and how the awarding of "purse" money came to be.

The first Preakness, held on May 27, 1873, drew seven starters. John Chamberlain's three-year-old, Survivor, collected the $2,050 winning purse by galloping home easily by 10 lengths. This was the largest margin of victory until 2004, when Smarty Jones won by 11 1/2 lengths.^[8]