Philip Treacy Quotes
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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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Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
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I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.
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Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
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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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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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The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
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When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.
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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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Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
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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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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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I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
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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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When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.
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Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
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I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy customers. Sometimes I get more enthusiasm from the housewife who wants a hat and believes in it.
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I like hats that make the heart beat faster.
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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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Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.
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How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
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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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Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.