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Philip Treacy
Irish
Designer
Born:
May 26
,
1967
Feel
Hat
Hats
Like
People
You
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A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
Philip Treacy
You
Carries
Hat
Hats
About
Emotion
Feel
Makes
How
Off
Person
How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
Philip Treacy
You
Hat
About
Feel
Makes
How
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
Philip Treacy
Own
Magic
Celebrity
Than
Different
Royalty
I like hats that make the heart beat faster.
Philip Treacy
Heart
Faster
Hats
Beat
Like
Make
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
Philip Treacy
Mathematics
Architecture
Face
Hat
Wearing
Hats
Proportions
Like
Balancing
Your
Designing
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.
Philip Treacy
Day
Memories
Year
Resort
Local
Our
Summer
One Day
Go
West
Up
Ireland
Grew
Enduring
Sand
Sea
Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.
Philip Treacy
Personality
Somebody
Feel
Without
Being
Elegant
Everybody loves things that sparkle.
Philip Treacy
Everybody
Loves
Sparkle
Things
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
Attitude
You
People
Try
Shoes
Bit
Laugh
Hat
Put
Like
Makes
Them
Required
Fun
Pair
Brings
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
Me
People
Made
Bit
Visit
Visiting
Hat
Come
Like
Psychiatrist
Little
Little Bit
Realize
Actually
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
Mother
Job
Somebody
Eye
Has-Been
Responsible
Dream
Wear
Hats
Wedding
Exciting
Feel
Like
Makes
Making
Been
Dollars
Child
Often
Public
Public Eye
Whose
Her
Million
Million Dollars
Designing
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
Philip Treacy
Mind
Elegance
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.
Philip Treacy
Sun
Hat
Classic
Hats
Excess
Glamour
Major
She
Ultimate
Celebrity
Worked
Fifties
Forties
Taylor
Epitome
Image
Elizabeth
Elizabeth Taylor
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.
Philip Treacy
Care
Sister
Clothes
Easily
Could
Make
Dolls
Really
Used
Less
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
You
Care
Thought
Others
Later
Know
Sort
Because
Very
Child
Just
Different
Gain
Really
Your
Inhibitions
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
Mother
Made
Own
Everything
Intrigued
Hat
Hats
Only
Never
She
Make
Because
Person
Want
Mean
Preferred
Really
Her
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
Philip Treacy
Believe
Hat
Am
Designer
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
Philip Treacy
Mind
Design
Otherwise
Hat
Object
Always
Inanimate
Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.
Philip Treacy
Time
Good
People
Good Time
Hat
Wearing
Fun
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.
Philip Treacy
Home
Sister
Clothes
Gone
Think
Seven
Brothers
Had
Weirdo
She
Although
Dolls
Grown
Away
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
Love
Crazy
People
Grace
Sometimes
Enthusiasm
Think
Hat
More
Although
Housewife
Because
Get
Romance
Lady
Lady Gaga
Wants
Gaga
Customers
Who
Believes
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
Life
Worn
Once
Hats
Only
Weddings
Lifetime
Attend
Occasions
Ultimate
Celebrities
Races
Us
Who
Many
Moments
Twice
Royals
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
Work
Fashion
Sometimes
Illusion
All Night
Industry
Frivolous
Appear
Designers
Night
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
Life
Women
Our
Dream
Come
Ultimate
Sell
Shop
Themselves
Moment
Moments
Buying
Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
Philip Treacy
People
Type
Introduced
New
Like
Gaga
Certainly
People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic.
Philip Treacy
People
Stars
Kind
Dressing
Like
Which
Fantastic
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