Philip Treacy Quotes
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Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime.
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I used to make clothes for my sister's dolls. I couldn't care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily.
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I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.
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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
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I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
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Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
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Hats are the epitome of Englishness, and a royal wedding is the penultimate moment for a hat designer. I'm Irish, but I am a royalist and I believe in fantasy.
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In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.
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Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
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The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
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When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.
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Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.
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When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.
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At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.
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Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
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There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
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Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's so much choice. It can feel like entering a battleground.
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I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
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I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea.
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What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.
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Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.
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I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later.
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My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.
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Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.