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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "

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" I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes. "

" Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history. "

" I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them. "

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" Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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