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" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Moment
Dream
Life
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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. "
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" Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality. "
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" I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting. "
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" People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic. "
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" My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. "
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" 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. "
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" Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. "
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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. "
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" Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that. "
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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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" Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. "
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" 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. "
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" America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. "
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" When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen. "
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