80 Quotes by Philip Treacy

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

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

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.

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

Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.

People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.

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

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.