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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.

I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.

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.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.

The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

I'm not a hat person. I really don't like wearing things on my head.