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" When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful. "
Philip Treacy
Feel
Your
You
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Home
" 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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" Everybody loves things that sparkle. "
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" So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening. "
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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. "
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Culture
She
Point
" 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. "
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Us
Twice
Only
" Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. "
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Elegance
Mind
" I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous. "
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Saying
Remember
People
" Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. "
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Feel
" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "
Philip Treacy
Irish
World
Over
" Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing. "
Philip Treacy
New
Type
Like
" 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. "
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Moment
Dream
Life
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Own
Hat
Mother
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Rules
Success
Personality
" I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner. "
Philip Treacy
Hat
I Am
I Believe
" Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. "
Philip Treacy
Celebrity
Than
Royalty
" I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. "
Philip Treacy
Little
Grew
Ireland
" 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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Hats
Young
Want
" I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object. "
Philip Treacy
Hat
Mind
Object
" People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic. "
Philip Treacy
Kind
Stars
People
" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "
Philip Treacy
Excite
Eye
Through
" Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable. "
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Different
Ultimate
Try
" My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. "
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Like
People
Hat
" I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting. "
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Job
People
Interesting
" 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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Me
Little
Hat
" 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. "
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You
" Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. "
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Her
Hat
Part