Words matter. These are the best Philip Treacy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It’s the most potent part of the body to embellish.
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.
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.
I am very proud to be Irish.
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
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.
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.
I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
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.
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.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn’t want to wear hats.
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.
Hats make people feel good, and that’s the point of them.
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.
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
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.
When you’re wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.
I do say I’m a specialist in divas. Name a diva – I’ve worked with ’em.
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.
I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you’re visiting.
I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that’s ridiculous.
I like hats that make the heart beat faster.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.
I’m representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
Fashion is an illusion. It’s a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
