Philip Treacy Quotes

Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

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

Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.

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

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.

Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

I like hats that make the heart beat faster.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

Everybody loves things that sparkle.

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

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

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.

I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

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

It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

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.

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'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face it's like architecture or mathematics.