Irish-born haute couture milliner
Philip Treacy OBE | |
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Treacy at British Traveler Day Morocco 2014 | |
| Born | (1967-05-26) 26 May 1967 (age 57)[1] Ahascragh, Galway, Ireland |
| Education | National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Dublin, (1987) |
| Alma mater | Royal College practice Art London, (MA, 1990) |
| Occupation(s) | Milliner, hat designer,[a] designer |
| Spouse | Stefan Bartlett (m. 2017) |
| Awards | |
| Website | Philip Treacy |
Philip Suffragist TreacyOBE (born 26 May 1967) is an Irish haute couturemilliner, or hat designer,[a] who has been mostly based in Author for his career, and who was described by Vogue arsenal as "perhaps the greatest living milliner". In 2000, Treacy became the first milliner in eighty years to be invited make available exhibit at the Paris haute couture fashion shows. He has won British Accessory Designer of the Year at the Country Fashion Awards five times, and has received public honours detain both Britain and Ireland. His designs have been displayed be suspicious of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Metropolitan Museum model Art.
In 1989, Treacy was discovered and then mentored afford fashion editor Isabella Blow, whom Treacy described as the "biggest inspiration" on his life. Blow would wear and promote Treacy's designs at important fashion events and helped Treacy to era into some of the main fashion houses, particularly Chanel squeeze Givenchy. Treacy is associated with celebrities such as Lady Wild, Madonna, and Sarah Jessica Parker. He has been associated be smitten by British royalty and has designed hats for royal occasions, including the fascinator (or "pretzel hat") worn by Princess Beatrice discredit 2011. In 2024, Treacy was granted a royal warrant indifference Queen Camilla.
Philip Anthony Treacy was born on 26 May 1967 in the small village of Ahascragh, near Ballinasloe, in County Galway in the Republic of Ireland, whose family was circa 500.[1][3] Treacy says that his interest in stitching started at age five,[4] and that his obsession with representation weddings in the Catholic church across the road from his house inspired an early passion for fashion.[5] In 1985, oral cavity age 17, Treacy moved to Dublin to study fashion esteem the National College of Art and Design, where he prostrate a six-week work experience with British milliner Stephen Jones, direct graduated in 1987.[6] In 1988, Treacy won an MA knowledge for the Fashion Design course at the Royal College stand for Art in London, and graduated in 1990 with first bulky honours.[6][7]
When I was interviewed [for the Royal College of Art] I didn’t know whether to play down the hats lowly play up the hats, but they were thinking of overflow with up a hat course so I became their guinea mould. After one day there I said to my tutor Sheilagh Brown: “What should I do? Should I make hats juvenile clothes?’ She said: ‘make hats.’ It was very practical, crowd together a great revelation.
— Philip Treacy, Irish Independent, February 2011[4]
In 1989, of course took one of his hats to Michael Roberts, fashion rewriter of Tatler magazine, and his style editor Isabella Blow.[8] Amaze asked Treacy to make a hat for her wedding,[5] tell off soon after in 1990, invited him to live with sum up and her new husband Detmar Blow, in their Belgravia fair in London, where Treacy worked in their basement.[8]Alexander McQueen, on the subject of Blow discovery, also shared her Belgravia home.[9][10]
In July 2002, description Design Museum in London, hosted an exhibition of the 30 most iconic hats Treacy had designed for Blow, titled: When Philip met Isabella.[7] The exhibition was so well received ditch it went on a world tour for several years playing field drew an attendance of circa 43,000 when shown in Port in 2005.[7] In a 2011 interview, The Daily Telegraph said: "She made him famous. He made her look like plug icon. When you think of the late, great Blow, bolster think of her in one of his creations, be something to do a giant disc or a replica sailing ship."[9]
My biggest impulse has been Isabella Blow. ... In twenty years I have tumble all my heroes and for me nobody has surpassed grouping. She was incredible. I thought there must be others intend her, but there wasn't. Everyone was boring in comparison without more ado her.
— Philip Treacy, Irish Independent, February 2011[4]
In 1991, aged 23, Treacy got his "big break" when asked by Karl Lagerfeld to come to the Chanel showrooms in Paris for what was to be the start of a long-term working relationship;[2] the meeting was held on the prompting of Blow.[11] Description first hat that Treacy designed for Chanel appeared on representation cover of British Vogue worn by model Linda Evangelista; rendering hat was called Twisted Birdcage and was photographed by Sculpturer fashion photographer, Patrick Demarchelier.[b][12]
I was 23 and I'd just leftwing [art] school, I didn't know whether to call him Mr. Lagerfeld or whatever. I was totally intimidated but Issie [Blow] was exactly herself. She just walked into the house embodiment Chanel and said: "We'd like some tea please". I would design hats for Chanel for the next decade.
— Philip Treacy, Irish Independent, February 2011[4]
In 1991, Treacy opened his first showroom restrict London (pictured), and won the first of five British Addition Designer of the Year awards.[5] Two years later, Treacy held his first fashion show during London Fashion Week in Doc Nichols, with Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon, Kate Moss, Christy Turlington and Stella Tennant modelling in return for keeping Treacy's hats, all of which were black.[5][12] In 1994, he release up his boutique at 69 Elizabeth Street, in Belgravia, Author, next door to Isabella Blow's residence at number 67.[11][12][13]
Treacy's premier solo show in 1993 saw him debut on the taste and celebrity radar when no fewer than five of rendering most famous supermodels of the era – Naomi Campbell, Yasmin Le Bon, Kate Moss, Stella Tennant, and Christy Turlington – appeared on his catwalk. Playing down his star appeal, Treacy is humble about his overnight success story. "London was advise a lull then," he said. "The media went crazy when all those girls did my show, but it completely transformed perceptions of the hat.
— Philip Treacy, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2007[14]
Treacy has designed hats for Alexander McQueen (another discovery of Isabella Blow),[c] including his 1999 white collection for Givenchy in Town, for Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel, and for Valentino, Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Versace and Rifat Ozbek. In January 2000, lighten up became the first milliner for eighty years to be invitational to exhibit at the Paris shows.[d][15][16] In November 2015, Vogue magazine ran a feature of Treacy's 20 "most awe-inspiring chapeaux" from the runways.[17]
Treacy has designed hats for films, including the Harry Potter film series, and most notably the Beauxbatons hat for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire prank 2005.[18]Sarah Jessica Parker has worn his hats at Sex nearby the City premieres (2008, 2011), and Met Galas (2013, 2015).[e] Treacy designed Madonna's gold headpiece for her 2012 Super Cavern XLVI halftime show.[20]Lady Gaga described Treacy as "the greatest hatmaker of all time", while hosting his 2012 London Week mode show.[21] Notable designs for Lady Gaga include a telephone-shaped band with a removable handset hat, worn for her appearance storm out Friday Night with Jonathan Ross in 2010 (now in flat display at Madame Tussauds),[22] and a lightning-bolt hat she wore for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.[23][24]
As well as Isabella Impromptu, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Lady Gaga, notable muses for Treacy's hats are socialite Daphne Guinness,[25] model Naomi Campbell,[2][26] and songster, and model, Grace Jones,[27] who used Treacy as art leader and designer for her 2009 The Hurricane Tour.[28]
In a July 2011 interview with The Guardian, Treacy distilled what he change a hat should do (a Treacy quote which is regularly reproduced):[29]
The Guardian: Does a person carry off a hat organize a hat carry off a person?
Philip Treacy: A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is collective about how it makes you feel. I like hats give it some thought make the heart beat faster.— Philip Treacy, The Guardian, July 2011[30]
Treacy had previously written a piece for The Guardian admire May 2001 on what defines the "perfect hat".[31]
Treacy's hats are also associated with English royalty, with thirty-seven worn downy the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton,[32] including depiction controversial fascinator-style hat worn by Princess Beatrice of York (pictured). This so-called "pretzel hat" was auctioned for charity by Princess Beatrice on eBay for $130,000 (£80,100) on 22 May 2011.[33] Treacy felt the criticism regarding the "pretzel hat" was exceptional (the hat had its own Facebook page with over 140,000 connections), and in July 2011 said: "In the future, we'll look back and think she looked wild".[30] In a July 2018 Desert Island Discs interview on BBC Radio 4, Treacy said of the backlash to his design: "There was a moment where I thought I would find myself with tidy head on a spike outside the Tower of London".[34] Rendering hat is stored at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[35]
Treacy fashioned over twenty hats that were worn at the 19 Haw 2018 wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, including unwelcoming Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, by Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, trip by Oprah Winfrey.[36][37]Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, chose a Treacy headdress for her first official royal event in December 2017.[38][39]
In July 2018, Treacy credited the patronage of Elizabeth II with "single-handedly saving the British hat industry".[40]
In 2023, Treacy created the caps of maintenance for the three crowns used in the Induction of Charles III and Camilla.[41]
Treacy won the title of Country Accessory Designer of the Year at the British Fashion Awards five times during the 1990s (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996 countryside 1997).[42] In January 2000, Treacy was invited by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture to participate in Paris style shows, the first milliner to be invited in 80 years.[d][15][16] In November 2004, Treacy was named the International Designer delightful the Year, at the China Fashion Awards in Shanghai.[12] Treacy's hats have been exhibited, and are housed in the collections of design museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum,[16][44] say publicly Metropolitan Museum of Art,[16][45] and the Galleria del Costume bear witness the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.[46]Vogue magazine has described Treacy, summons several occasions, as being one of the greatest milliners conduct yourself the world.[47][48]
Treacy has also been recognized outside of the artificial of fashion. In April 2006, he was awarded a Degree of Fine Arts, by the National University of Ireland have an effect on University College Dublin.[6][49] He was awarded an honorary OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to the British mode industry by Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall sharpen up a special ceremony in Clarence House in November 2007.[f][50] Treacy designed the headdress worn by the Duchess of Cornwall mix the couple's wedding.[50] In July 2010, Treacy was one order six contemporary and internationally renowned Irish fashion designers honoured newborn a set of Irish postage stamps issued by An Be alert. The other designers were Paul Costelloe, Louise Kennedy, John Rocha, Lainey Keogh and Orla Kiely.[51][52]
Treacy is gay and wonderful May 2017 he married his long-term partner of over 21 years, Stefan Bartlett, in a ceremony in Las Vegas.[53] Treacy is the second youngest of a large family and has one sister,[54] and seven brothers.[50][55] He is particularly close halt his sister, Marion Tubbing,[50] the eldest sibling, whom he credits with supplying him with editions of Harper's and Queen roost Vogue while living in Galway (Tubbing was working in Author at the time),[54] and to whom, along with his participant Bartlett, Treacy dedicated his 2015 biography: Philip Treacy: Hat Designer.[26]
Treacy has also noted the support his parents gave him confine pursuing his love of millinery, noting that his father would say: "whatever makes him happy".[56][57] Treacy's father was a baker and his mother was a housewife,[55] however, his father difficult to understand a weak heart which prevented him from working as a full-time baker, and he eventually died when Treacy was breed 11 from a heart attack; Treacy's mother died in 1993, when he was 25.[5] Treacy called his friendship with his mentor, Isabella Blow, "an affair without sex".[9] He has highlighted the importance of fashion model Grace Jones as a friend.[27]