Ursula Trudeau

Interviews of Ursula Trudeau by Amy Catania for "A Life in Hats Exhibit," 2013:

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 Ursula Trudeau on Working in the Fashion Industry
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“Working as a fashion illustrator and model, I got to know a lot of tough lady executives. They had to fight hard and be a little in-your-face tough because they were bucking things in a man’s world. I admired them a lot. They all wore hats. They were making a statement with their hats. Maybe that’s why I started wearing hats after a while... not at the time, but later on.

I don’t have a lot of pictures of me in hats when I was under the age of twenty. I did wear them when it was cold, walking to art school with my great big old fashioned portfolio. If the wind blew you might just take air!
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I’ll never forget one modeling disaster. Someone had left a cake in a cakebox on the runway, and I accidentally stepped right in it! The lady in charge was furious at me. Can you imagine trying to get a spike heel out of a cakebox?”

To learn more about Ursula Trudeau and visit our local wiki website. To read the Adirondack Daily Enterprise article in memory of Ursula click here.