The flamboyant hat worn by Princess Beatrice at last month’s royal wedding has been sold for the princely sum of £81,100 on internet auction site eBay.

Proceeds from the sale of the hat, designed by Irish milliner Philip Treacy, will be split between two charities: the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and British charity Children in Crisis.

The princess, the oldest daughter of Prince Andrew and a granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II, provided one of the most memorable moments of a dramatic day when she stepped out in the eccentric headwear, likened to a giant pretzel.

Tina Barrat of Tina Barrat bijoux-couture, is a French-born, Hong Kong based designer. Her brand was launched in 1999 to international acclaim.

The brand is called “bijoux-couture” since her jewelry is comprised of original components and her jewels are incorporated together with fabrics, ribbons, lace, feathers, and other materials.

Tina is currently using a combination of feathers and natural components (such as mother-of-pearl) and the “couture” aspect remains very important to her work.

Brent Black, renowned authority and preeminent purveyor of handwoven straw hats, is now offering the world’s finest Montecristi Panama for $100,000.

Simply referred to as “The Hat”, this one has been exquisitely woven from fine toquilla straw that too only in Ecuador.

The Hat was commissioned by Black from the king of the master weavers Simón Espinal, who lives in the village of Píle in Montecristi Canton.

Modeled by actress Alicia Witt at Christie’s in London, Chapeau d’Amour—the “hat of love”—was created by celebrity couture designer Louis Mariette in 2004.

Made of woven platinum and covered in stunning diamonds, the hat was inspired by ivy and bluebells.

Valued at $2.7 million, The Chapeau d‘Amour, is currently the most expensive hat ever created.

As if his exhibition, Hats: An Anthology, at the Victoria & Albert Museum wasn’t enough of a treat, Stephen Jones has collaborated with Champagne house Perrier-Jouet to create another suitably indulgent treat: a personalised, limited edition leather hatbox and matching hat.

One of just 8 individual collector’s items available in the UK, the hatbox is a work of art in itself – handmade by Italian craftsmen using white leather, natural green silk and gold thread.

Filled with luxury Belle Epoque champagne accessories, it represents the ultimate travelling case for footloose champagne lovers, containing a Christofle silver ice bucket designed for Perrier-Jouët, two hand-blown anemone flutes and a bottle of Belle Epoque 1999.

For London Fashion Week, the Victoria and Albert Museum of art and design will present an “anthology of hats” bringing together more than 300 pieces from around the world.

This exhibition, a collaboration between the V&A and the radical hat designer Stephen Jones, will open on February 24 and will be arranged in four main themes, following the life of a hat through the stages of inspiration, creation, the salon, and on, to the client who wears it.