Top 69 Philip Treacy Quotes
#1. I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.
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#2. So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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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#5. 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.
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#6. 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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#7. Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
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#8. I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.
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#9. 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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#10. 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.
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#11. Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.
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#12. What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.
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#13. I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
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#14. I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.
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#15. I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.
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#18. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.
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#21. 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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#22. You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.
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#23. My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.
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#24. 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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#25. MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations - from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the visual aspect of the collection excites me most. For designers, we care about the photographs much more than a Ferrari.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
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#29. Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
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#30. 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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#32. The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
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#33. In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.
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#34. 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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#35. Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
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#36. I think and hope I have changed the way we look at hats. They are no longer symbols of conformity but highly individual acts of rebellion. I am constantly challenging the perception of what a hat should be and what role it should play.
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#37. Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
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#38. Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
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#39. I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.
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#40. 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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#41. When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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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#44. I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
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#46. When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.
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#47. How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
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#48. 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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#49. 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.
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#50. Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
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#51. 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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#52. 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.
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#53. 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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#54. I empathise with the fact that people want to look their best. A hat is all about how it makes you feel - it's so much better than a nip and tuck, and a lot less painful.
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#55. It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.
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#57. Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
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#58. I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.
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#62. People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic.
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#63. I grew up in the west of Ireland, and Galway was our local seaside resort. We'd go for one day of the year during the summer, and I have enduring memories of the sand and the sea.
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#64. America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
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#65. 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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#66. A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
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#68. When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.
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