Philip Treacy Quotes

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Philip Treacy

Profession : Designer

Birth : May 26, 1967

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.

Philip Treacy

America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.

Philip Treacy

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

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

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I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

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

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I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy customers. Sometimes I get more enthusiasm from the housewife who wants a hat and believes in it.

Philip Treacy

Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.

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

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I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.

Philip Treacy

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

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.

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Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.

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

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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.

Philip Treacy

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

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

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When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.

Philip Treacy

When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.

Philip Treacy