Philip Treacy postage stamps issued by An Post. The other designers were Paul Costelloe, Louise Kennedy, John Rocha, Lainey Keogh and Orla Kiely. Treacy's hats have been exhibited, and are housed in the collections, of design museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the "Galleria del Costume" of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. "Vogue" magazine has described Treacy, on a number of occasions, as being the "greatest milliner in the world". Treacy is gay and in May 2017 he married his long–term partner of over 21 years, Stefan Bartlett, in a ceremony in Las Vegas. Treacy
John Treacy with a silver medal in the men's marathon. Winner Carlos Lopes of Portugal was largely unchallenged for much of the race, with Treacy down the field until entering the top six around the 20-kilometre mark. Treacy continued to work his way up the rankings until entering the Los Angeles Coliseum stadium just behind second-placed British athlete Charlie Spedding. Treacy overtook Spedding with 150m to go, during which the Irish television commentary of Jimmy Magee listed the previous Irish Olympic medal winners up to that time, before culminating: "And for the 13th time, an Olympic medal goes to John Treacy from