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Philip Treacy
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" Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats. "
Philip Treacy
Hats
Young
Want
" Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream. "
Philip Treacy
Dream
People
Every Day
" I am very proud to be Irish. "
Philip Treacy
Proud
Very
Irish
" There is no attitude required. The hat brings the attitude. And when people try on a hat they like, it is a bit of fun. It makes them laugh. You don't laugh when you put on a pair of shoes, but you do with a hat. "
Philip Treacy
People
Fun
Attitude
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Great
Good
Believe
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Know
You
Others
" America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats. "
Philip Treacy
Baseball
Us
Hats
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Choice
Feel
Shopping
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Us
Twice
Only
" I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. "
Philip Treacy
Irish
World
Over
" I want to excite the eye through hatmaking. "
Philip Treacy
Excite
Eye
Through
" 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
" So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening. "
Philip Treacy
Advice
Always
Outfit
" Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. "
Philip Treacy
Celebrity
Than
Royalty
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Wedding
Mother
Child
" When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen. "
Philip Treacy
Queen
People
Majesty
" I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em. "
Philip Treacy
Worked
Specialist
Say
" When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish. "
Philip Treacy
You
Someone
Most
" Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes. "
Philip Treacy
Fashion
Work
Industry
" Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. "
Philip Treacy
Her
Hat
Part
" My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. "
Philip Treacy
Like
People
Hat
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Moments
Special
Look
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Love
Drive
Modern
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
You
Things
Skills
" Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. "
Philip Treacy
Elegance
Mind
" 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. "
Philip Treacy
Want
Chocolate
Hat
" Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing. "
Philip Treacy
New
Type
Like
" A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel. "
Philip Treacy
Person
Emotion
Feel
" I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner. "
Philip Treacy
Hat
I Am
I Believe
" The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat. "
Philip Treacy
Hat
Personality
Makes