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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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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like hats that make the heart beat faster. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel. "

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

" Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Hats are for life's ultimate moments. They're worn at races, at weddings. Occasions many of us, who aren't royals and celebrities, only attend once or twice in a lifetime. "

" 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. "

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