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" I am very proud to be Irish. "
Philip Treacy
Proud
Very
Irish
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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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" 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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" Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing. "
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" When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful. "
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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 grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. "
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" 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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Best
You
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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. "
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" America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. "
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" I was just, as a child, very different from the others, and didn't really care what they thought because you know, a child doesn't really have inhibitions; you sort of gain your inhibitions later. "
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