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" Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. "

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" My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. "

" 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. "

" When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen. "

" 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. "

" 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'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "

" People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate. "

" When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful. "

" I am very proud to be Irish. "

" America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish. "

" I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting. "

" How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about. "

" I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. "

" There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don't laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat. "

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

" I empathise with the fact that people want to look their best. A hat is all about how it makes you feel - it's so much better than a nip and tuck, and a lot less painful. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Women come into our shop for that ultimate moment in their life. They're buying a dream. They're buying a moment for themselves. That's what I sell - moments. "

" 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. "

" Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that. "

" Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality. "

" The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats. "

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