Philip Treacy Quotes

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Philip Treacy

Profession : Designer

Birth : May 26, 1967

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

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Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

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Everybody loves things that sparkle.

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

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

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I like hats that make the heart beat faster.

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I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.

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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

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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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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.

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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.

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

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Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.

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

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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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I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.

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I used to make clothes for my sister's dolls. I couldn't care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily.

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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.

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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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