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
Philip Treacy Anthony Treacy was born on 26 May 1967 in the small village of Ahascragh, in County Galway in the Republic of Ireland, whose population was circa 500. Treacy says that his interest in sewing started at age five, and that his obsession with the weddings in the church across the road from his house, inspired an early passion for fashion. At age 17, Treacy moved to Dublin in 1985, to study fashion at the National College of Art and Design, where he spent a 6–week work experience with British millner, Stephen Jones. In 1988, Treacy won an MA scholarship for