Philip Anthony Treacy OBE  (1967-) is an Irish haute couture milliner, or hat designer, mostly based in London for his career, who was described by Vogue magazine as “perhaps the greatest living milliner”.

His hats are works of art that live timelessly in fashion history, untethered to an obvious decade or trend.Treacy studied fashion at the National College of Art and Design, where he  graduated in 1987. The next year he won an MA scholarship for the Fashion Design course at the Royal College of Art in London, graduating with first class honors.Widely credited for changing the perception of the hat, he designs hats to flatter and enhance the wearer.Treacy’s process begins with a drawing, followed by a 3D mock-up in the material.

He then sends the hat shape to a block maker located in Paris who carves it in wood, which serves as the base for the construction of the hat itself.Everything is handmade as couture manufacturing.

This keeps the hat-making process human as opposed to machine-manufactured and stamped out.His hats run the gamut between sophisticated and alien, always one of a kind designs from one of a kind dreams.More of Philip Treacy’s amazing hats can be found at https://www.philiptreacy.co.uk.