Explore Quotes by Philip Treacy

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

The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.

How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.

I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.

I am very proud to be Irish.

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.

When you're wearing something on your head, you feel beautiful.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I like hats that make the heart beat faster.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Everybody loves things that sparkle.