Philip Treacy the Fashion Design course at the Royal College of Art in London, and graduated in 1990 with first class honours. In 1989 he took one of his hats to Michael Roberts, fashion editor of "Tatler" magazine, and his style editor, Isabella Blow. Blow asked Treacy to make a hat for her to wear for her wedding, and soon after, invited him in 1990, to live with her and her new husband Detmar Blow, in their Belgravia London home, where Treacy worked in their basement. Alexander McQueen, another Blow discovery, would also join Treacy in her home. "The Telegraph" would chronicle
Seán Treacy to Cork — and two returns." As the train steamed across the Tipperary border and into Co Limerick the IRA party, led by Treacy, boarded the train in Knocklong. A close-range struggle ensued on the train. Treacy and Breen were seriously wounded in the gunfight. Two RIC men died, but Hogan was rescued. His rescuers rushed him into the village of Knocklong where a butcher's wife slammed down the shutters to hide them and her husband cut off his handcuffs using a cleaver. A search for Treacy and others was mounted across Ireland. Treacy left Tipperary for Dublin to avoid