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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em. "

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

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

" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 am very proud to be Irish. "

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

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

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