Design Quote by Philip Treacy Download Open image “I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.” — Philip Treacy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Design Hats Inspirational Love
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… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity. — Gabriel Byrne Copy Share Image
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because It gives us a hold on the sentimental English As members of a world that never… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. — Bertrand Barere Copy Share Image
I think I've got an Irish sensibility for language - I like how people talk. I'm not saying I've got it, but I'm obsessed… — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those things that… — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from my mother's… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
MAC allowed me to have complete freedom on the collaborations—from the shades, the look-and-feel, to the campaign visuals. I have to admit that the… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Shopping can be a nightmare - first finding something to wear and then finding something to go with it, it's so difficult when there's… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I believe in originality, primarily. However, it's important to know what there has been before to aim in that direction. Art history informs us.… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
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… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I particularly like to travel for work because you see a completely different side of the country you're visiting. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it… If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
