The best hats for Ascot: Stand out from the racing crowd with designs by London's hottest young milliners

Rose Bryant: 'I quite like wearing a vegetable dish lid' (Ruth Hogben)

Style has no age... and Ascot no limits, as these designs by Piers Atkinson, House of Flora, Noel Stewart and Aurora Ozma show.

Models: Ruth Black, Rose Bryant, Lynne Harris, Sarah Hogben, Kathy MacEwen and Jenny Richards

Photographs: Ruth Hogben

Hair: David Wadlow at Premier

Make-up: Laura Dominique at Streeters, using MAC

Photographic assistance: Laura Falconer and Chloe Orefice

Styling assistance: Brad Palmer

Hair assistance: Ross McLaughlan

Make-up assistance: Riona Sullivan and Maria Vittoria

Production: Drue Bisley

Retouching: Emma Tunstill at Touch Digital

Management studio and lighting: Rida Studios

Runner: Jake Bisley

*Odds correct at time of going to press