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"  A healthy dose of name-dropping is inevitable when talking to everyone\u2019s favourite milliner, Philip Treacy. After all, this is the man who has worked for everyone from Alexander McQueen to Karl Lagerfeld, and whose clients include Lady Gaga, Madonna and the Royal Family. \u201CInteresting people wear hats,\u201D he proclaims from his studio in Battersea, \u201CAnd I\u2019ve met them all! They\u2019re not your regular kettle of fish. Miss Gaga, Isabella Blow, Grace Jones, Sarah Jessica Parker, Madonna\u2026\u201D One of Isabella Blow\u2019s famous discoveries from the early 1990s, Philip Treacy, like his fellow prot\u00E9g\u00E9 Alexander McQueen, has become one of the most in-demand designers in the world, known for his whimsical, extravagant headwear.\u00A0 \u201CPeople often say they want a hat that will make them look like Audrey Hepburn \u2013 it&amp;#039;s a nostalgic approach to hats that is not mine!\u201D he explains. \u201CI like contemporary hats \u2013 I think it helps the hat business. And why look old?\u201D  A perennial multi-tasker, Treacy is constantly taking on new projects, new clients and new collaborations: from designing exquisite hats for Chanel, Valentino and Ralph Lauren, to dressing Lady Gaga on tour and Madonna at the Superbowl. The man can\u2019t sit still. \u201CI love to collaborate with great entertainers, big personalities and designers,\u201D he explains. \u201CIt\u2019s an amazing process that I think I learnt best from Karl Lagerfeld who is an excellent person to work with and who is interested in everybody\u2019s point of view.\u201D His latest scheme? Teaming up with Art of Life, a group of Dutch Orchid growers, to design not one but three hats inspired by the \u201Crock star of the plant world\u201D for their annual Day of the Orchid. \u00A0 \u201CI\u2019ve always used orchids, they are the royalty of the flower world. Who can resist them? They looked like little hats!\u201D he says of the collaboration. \u201CPlus, call me egotistical, but they\u2019re naming one after me. An entirely new breed!\u201D  The Day of the Orchid is 5 September, where Philip Treacy\u2019s designs will be unveiled. \u00A0 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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