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

Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.

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

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

I do say I'm a specialist in divas. Name a diva - I've worked with 'em.

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