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.
— Philip Treacy
Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
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 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.
A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn't really - she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn't want one of my hats. She made her own.
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 remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.
I like hats that make the heart beat faster.
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
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.
