Hats With a Modern Flair

THE German hat designer Rike Feurstein has the sort of discovery story that most

fledgling designers can only dream about. One winter day in 2007, almost a year

after opening a little MLB Hats atelier in Berlin, Ms. Feurstein was in Manhattan and

spontaneously popped into Barneys New York. She was wearing her classic Faye hat,

a jaunty outsize caboose-style cap winter hatscrocheted from almost rope-size wool yarn. The

hat caught the eye of a floor manager, who enthusiastically New era winter hats flipped through the

look book Ms. Feurstein had with her; within 48 hours an order was placed.