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" Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that. "
Philip Treacy
Hats
Radical
People
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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. "
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" A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel. "
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" 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. "
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" My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. "
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" I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. "
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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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" Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. "
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" How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about. "
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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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" There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. "
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" 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. "
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" The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat. "
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" I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em. "
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" 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. "
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" Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream. "
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" You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around. "
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" Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats. "
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" Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. "
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" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "
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" I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner. "
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" 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. "
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" I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting. "
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" 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. "
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" I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy customers. Sometimes I get more enthusiasm from the housewife who wants a hat and believes in it. "
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