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

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

" People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic. "

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

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

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

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

" I am very proud to be Irish. "

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

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

" Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing. "

" 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. "

" Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I believe in a democratic approach to fashion: if you feel good, then great. You may not look good, but it's not the problem. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. "

" Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure. "