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" Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best. "

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" When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it's a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don't actually realize that. "

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

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You

Work

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Everybody loves things that sparkle. "

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

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

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

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

Philip Treacy

People

Hat

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

" I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. "

" Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. "

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Mind

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" A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" 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 want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "