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" 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. "

Philip Treacy

Twice

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" 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. "

" My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens. "

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

" I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us. It informs our mind. I like to look at books, exhibitions, paintings, as a computer, subconsciously taking on information. "

" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat. "

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

" Everybody loves things that sparkle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around. "

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

Philip Treacy

People

Hat

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Philip Treacy

Little

Hat

" I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous. "