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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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" 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. "

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

" Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am very proud to be Irish. "

" 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. "

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

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