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Everybody loves things that sparkle.
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.
I like hats that make the heart beat faster.
Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic.
Hats are radical; only people that wear hats understand that.
When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.
It thrills observers and makes the wearer feel a million dollars.
America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.
Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.
I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.
Wearing a hat is fun; people have a good time when they're wearing a hat.
I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.
You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.
A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.
Try on 100 different hats if you can, until you find the one that suits you best. It's a trial and error thing.
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.
I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.
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.
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.
Hats are attached to special moments in people's lives - weddings, or the races. In difficult times, people still get married; they still want to look their best.
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.