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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.

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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.

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I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

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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.

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I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

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Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

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I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.

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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.

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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.

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Certainly, people like Gaga have introduced a new type of hat-wearing.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Designer

Born: May 26th, 1967

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