Maryam Keyhani

The artist and milliner Maryam Keyhani garners inspiration from an inner battle between the weight of reality and the haven of fantasy. Now based in Berlin, Keyhani grew up in Tehran and emigrated to Canada aged 13, where she went on to study painting and sculpture. A visual epithet of her escapist wonderland, Keyhani’s surrealist namesake label brings lightheartedness to a world tainted by turmoil via enormous, marshmallowy cloud hats, Napoleonic bicorn headbands, and straw boaters with bouncy, tubular rims. Keyhani opened a shop for her handmade pieces in the German capital at the beginning of this year – the centerpiece of which is her own bed, her favorite workspace.