Philip Treacy "Vogue" while living in Galway (Tubbing was working in London at the time), and for whom, along with his partner Stefan Bartlett, Treacy dedicated his 2015 biography: "Philip Treacy: Hat Designer". Philip Treacy Philip Anthony Treacy (born 26 May 1967) is an award–winning Irish haute couture milliner, or hat–designer, based in London, who has been described by "Vogue" magazine, as "perhaps the greatest living milliner". In 2000, Treacy became the first milliner for 80 years to be invited to exhibit at the Paris haute couture shows. Treacy has been associated with some of the largest fashion houses and particularly Chanel
Patrick Treacy to people who suffered from HIV/AIDS and were marginalised or discriminated against as a consequence. Treacy pioneered new aesthetic and surgical treatments to help people with LD-HIV, a condition characterized by loss of subcutaneous fat associated with infection with HIV. In 1993, he visited HIV orphanages in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and some of his later medical articles about these experiences won him Irish professional media awards. In 2001, Treacy challenged 'traditional' views on treating AIDS at a medical conference in South Africa, where he had done a placement as a young doctor. Treacy openly challenged Thabo Mbeki for his