- Nov 07, 2020
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- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to excite the eye through hatmaking.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Diva
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.
- Forties
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dream
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I empathise with the fact that people want to look their best. A hat is all about how it makes you feel - it's so much better than a nip and tuck, and a lot less painful.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Irish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very proud to be Irish.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always see a better side of where you're visiting when a local shows you around.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.
- Clothes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.
- Makes
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- Nov 07, 2020
The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like hats that make the heart beat faster.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the romance of what I do, although because of Isabella, Lady Gaga and Grace Jones, people think I have crazy customers. Sometimes I get more enthusiasm from the housewife who wants a hat and believes in it.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
- Loves
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everybody loves things that sparkle.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are dressing like stars, which is kind of fantastic.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020