Philip Treacy On Princess Beatrice's Infamous Hat: I Felt Hurt For Her, I Didn't Give A F**k About Bloggers

Milliner Philip Treacy is still making the rounds, talking about Princess Beatrice's much-discussed royal wedding hat -- you know, that ribbon-meets-reindeer fascinator with its own Facebook fan page, Tumblr and eBay auction price of $130,000.

He previously explained to HollywoodLife.com, "My inspiration was beauty and elegance; it's a 21st century royal wedding. No, they didn't tell me [what they wanted] because I've known them for a long time and I wanted them to look gorgeous and beautiful. They trusted me to make them. Gorgeous and beautiful can be open to interpretation...I thought they looked gorgeous and beautiful. But no one is crying if anyone didn't." (The "they" being Beatrice and sis Princess Eugenie.)

The Guardian's Kate Kellaway recently caught up with Treacy and asked him if he was hurt by all the chatter about the headpiece. He responded, "I felt hurt for [Beatrice]. She is only 22 and there was a little bit of bullying going on. I didn't give a f**k about 140,000 bloggers. In the future, we'll look back and think she looked wild." Okay, then. He also revealed that he once asked Queen Elizabeth whether she enjoyed wearing hats -- "she stood back and said: 'It is part of the uniform.'"

However, the royals aren't the only ones eager to get their hands on...and heads in a Treacy creation:

A couple of years ago, I got a phone call: would Mr Treacy make a hatpin for Elizabeth Taylor? I said: "Might Miss Taylor like a hat to go with the hatpin?" and the answer was: yes. I went to see her at the Dorchester. I didn't know whether I was going to be dealing with a very tricky person but she was a sweetheart. I thought it would be entertaining to do a hat show on her in her room -- because, after all, she is an old lady. I tried 25 hats on her. She kept saying: "Which hat can I have"? And at the end I said: "You can have them all."

Read the rest at the Guardian.co.uk.

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Comments

[LaurieAnn]

12:27 PM on 07/13/2011

The only problem with 'the hat' is that Princess Beatrice is not the right woman to have been wearing it. The hat needs a woman with established fashion cred of the late Isabella Blow.  She would have looked just like herself in the hat; she would have owned it.

[burton163]

10:20 AM on 07/13/2011

I can't believe some of the venomous comments regarding the princesses' choice of a hat. It's English high society...it's what they do, wear funny hats.

The princess simply choose to wear an especially outrageous version. To me it shows she has a sense of humor and some serious "cojones".

Personally, I thought she looked great. Love the smokey eyes, love the big teeth...call me crazy but I actually think she's kinda hot!

[ThinkCreeps]

10:57 AM on 07/12/2011

He's doing something right is he can raise $130k for making a cookie cutter covered in holiday inn quilt material.

[tuliehowller]

12:04 PM on 07/12/2011

Treacy probably bought the hat back himself. No one else would have done.

[BUSTERtheCAT]

09:52 AM on 07/12/2011

she is 22?

haaaaaaaaaa

[ThinkCreeps]

10:57 AM on 07/12/2011

Sad but true.

[mamapower]

04:56 AM on 07/12/2011

Wow, her mouth is as ugly as her face.

[BUSTERtheCAT]

09:50 AM on 07/12/2011

yep

[edseve]

01:42 AM on 07/12/2011

What a hoot! Showstopping hat worn elegantly and royally. Bravo, Princess! Wear whatever you want! Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion and that is the point, his or her opinion not command.

[tuliehowller]

11:54 AM on 07/12/2011

You are right...everyone is entitled to look like a prize di@k.....even a Princess.......LOL.

[Fool4Jazz]

12:54 AM on 07/12/2011

It was more the hat wearing her than her wearing the hat.

[tuliehowller]

11:55 AM on 07/12/2011

Treacy made a fool out of Beatrice....and himself.

[darkelflass]

09:42 PM on 07/11/2011

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And this beholder says that hat was ugly. It looked like part of a costume.

[copelli21]

04:17 PM on 07/11/2011

The hat was horrendous and she looked hideous in it.

He can try and spin it anyway he wants to.

It never ceases to amaze what passes for "designer" and "fashionable" these days.

[StarDagger]

08:17 PM on 07/11/2011

I think it was brilliant, for the same reason I love Lady GaGa, the edges should be pushed.

Game Over GOP, you can't wear a hat like that and look good in it, lol

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[thepoliticalcat]

03:52 PM on 07/11/2011

That was the most ridiculous, stew pid looking piece of junk I've ever seen. I doubt the designer's feeling sorry for the wearer. After all, it's only one of however many hats she owns, and clearly, she won't be wearing it again. He's just trying to bolster his own, now-badly-diminished ego.

[Jced]

03:37 PM on 07/11/2011

It was a HAT for Cris' Sakes!!!

[tuliehowller]

11:57 AM on 07/12/2011

If I put a sock on my head whould that make the sock a hat?

[Jced]

12:43 PM on 07/12/2011

Absolutely!!! It would be called a "Stocking Cap"!

[Sanndy Myer]

03:31 PM on 07/11/2011

I liked her and her hat.... She and her sister appear to be delightful young women.

[tuliehowller]

11:58 AM on 07/12/2011

Looney tune "delightful" maybe.

[nermz345]

02:55 PM on 07/11/2011

i still can't believe all the fuss people are making over a hat. a couple of people went as far as saying the milliner should be ashamed for making it. yes, i agree, it is a frightfully unattractive piece of head gear, but come on it's a hat not the anti-christ.

[DaniFoxy]

02:09 PM on 07/11/2011

It is kind of a funny hat, but that is kind of the persona that she portrays, fun and whimsical.

[tuliehowller]

12:01 PM on 07/12/2011

That thing on Beatrice's head was not "whimsical" it was an in-your-face monstrosity; a statement and an embaressment for her and Treacy.

[Lori Chaslot]

01:31 PM on 07/11/2011

If the Princess wasn't happy with the hat, she would not have worn it. She has dealt with all the negative feedback with poise and grace.