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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. "

Philip Treacy

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Wedding

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

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

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

" Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "

" Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. "

" Everybody loves things that sparkle. "

" 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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" The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child's wedding. I feel as responsible for making her feel like a million dollars as I do for somebody in the public eye. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening. "

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

" I like hats that make the heart beat faster. "