The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.
From Philip Treacy
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.
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.
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.
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
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