About Philip Treacy: Philip Treacy is an Irish hat designer and designer based in London.
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.
America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
I am very proud to be Irish.
I like hats that make the heart beat faster.
Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.
So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
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.
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.
You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.
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.
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
