Featuring soft swirls of crin, sparkling glass beads, and spiky stray feathers that once fluttered from a fabulous hat.

 Eighty years on from the end of the Second World War, we’re tipping our hats to the legendary Théâtre de la Mode - a magical exhibition of fashion dolls launched in 1945 to revive French couture. Designers like Christian Dior, Balenciaga, and Schiaparelli dressed elegant miniature mannequins to keep the art of fashion alive while fabric was scarce. It was small-scale theatre with grand imagination - Paris was making a powerful celebration of craft, resilience, and reinvention.

Reminding you of a certain tweed headband in the shop? Using off cuts of fabric, this dolly embraces her inner Coco.

Born from the scraps of the V V Chapeaux atelier and made with love, each dolly is a miniature marvel - a celebration of sustainable design, handmade beauty, and the joy of turning the overlooked into the utterly unforgettable. Like the Théâtre de la Mode dolls before them, they are stitched with stories, style, and a whole lot of imagination.

A spare wax flower from Tahoe in our Ascot Collection, this dolly also wears our V V handpainted fabric scraps left over from one of Annabel's hat designs.

 With their beaded bonnets, cheeky charm, and theatrical flair, Caroline's dollies embody the modern descendants of those postwar fashion figures. Each dolly carries a whisper of the hat it came from - a leftover loop here, a twist of tweed there - stitched into something new, delightful, and entirely V V.

A fierce leopardess stitched from leftover tweed and finished with a wayward feather. A tiny tribute to bold style.

Stray feathers from an emu headband and a vintage glass bird create this tiny masterpiece.

This dolly is tailored from tweed and finished with satin ribbon off-cuts.

A V V fabulous way we rescue our thread cut offs from all of our V V Chapeaux designs.

This empress is made using left over beads from the V V archives along with some scrap paper tassels.

Leftover peacock feathers and leaves from our V V flowers have transformed this dolly into a miniature woodland queen.

This pom pom queen is V V colourful. Made using pom pom cut offs and our office paper clips!

Sunshine-bright and full of V V charm, this dolly is made from leftover yellow crin and sparkling vintage beads.

Dressed in drama and elegance, this dolly wears a plume of black feathers and a striking black-and-white oriental button hat.

With a skirt made from a champagne muselet, leaf-green tubular beads, and a glass bird soaring overhead, this dolly is fizzing with V V charm.

This dolly struts the line between garden and glamour, with a florist wire trellis skirt, leftover rosebuds in bloom, and a V V Rouleaux ribbon corset.

This dolly is adorned in a dress of delicate rosebuds, blooming with charm.

A V V inspiring dolly.

This dolly is crafted from leftover rosebuds and curls of leaf-green florist wire, twisting together like a miniature garden in full bloom.

A spanish dolly inspired by the Bisto gravy lid!

This dolly wears a dress made from scrap V V Rouleaux ribbon and a marigold yellow net, topped with a joyful headdress of multicoloured beads.

This dolly is dressed in shredded paper from a leftover office present, reimagined into a whimsical frock, crowned with a delicate seashell headpiece.

This dolly wears a Cinderella inspired dress of packing peanuts and blue taffeta, topped with a leftover hand-cut feather flower.

Crafted from rustic packing paper and embellished with vibrant African-inspired beads.

Crafted from leftover pitch blue crin and adorned with hand-cut spiky feathers this dolly is ready for the ball!

Spun from leftover threads and held together with a curl of ribbon roll acetate, this dolly flutters to life with a butterfly headpiece.