Philip Treacy
Philip Treacy
Philip Treacy OBEis an Irish milliner and designer based in London...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth26 May 1967
CountryIreland
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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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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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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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I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.
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When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
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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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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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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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So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.
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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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I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
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My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.
Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.