Philip Treacy : (7)

" 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

" I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner. " - Philip Treacy

" 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

" 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

" America brought us the baseball cap; it’s one of my favorite hats. " - Philip Treacy

" I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland. " - Philip Treacy

" Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It’s a personality. " - Philip Treacy