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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.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

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 wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.

Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.