Quotes by Giles Deacon - Page 2

Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Bleak
County
Nowhere
Private Schools
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Rooney Mara is someone I'd like to dress; we've not worked with her before and she certainly has very interesting personal style.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Personal Style
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I am really looking forward to walking past people on the street wearing my clothes and know I am designing for an everyday woman.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Everyday
Looking Forward
Designing
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People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.
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Irony
Wit
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DAKS is a much more restrained silhouette, and there's a real emphasis on daywear, outerwear, and tailoring. It's more stripped-down.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Emphasis
Silhouette
Restrained
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I've always drawn a lot. I like the idea of turning a 2-D sketch into a 3-D thing very quickly. And clothing is really good for that.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Turning
Clothing
Good Always Like
Drawn
Quickly
Sketch
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One day I'll do a Dorian Gray, and there will be a picture in the attic. I'll look like Helen Daniels from 'Neighbours' after her stroke.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Gray
Look Day Will
Attic
Neighbours
Stroke
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I like women to have life, personalities. Women who would perhaps cause some trouble on a night out and have a lot to say for themselves.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Personalities
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The name Holly Fulton has become synonymous with daring, bold graphic prints which you just know if you wear you'll have a brilliant time in.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Brilliant
Daring
Graphic
Bold
Holly
Prints
Synonymous
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With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Space
Character
Couture
Explore
Great Thing
Piece
Season
Themes
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I don't really see the point in planning to show off-schedule. I think it's things like showing on-schedule that helps London be organised as it is.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Organised
Planning
Showing
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At a certain period in time, the fashion industry was portraying this image of a totally unrealistic woman, women who are not allowed to be themselves.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Fashion Industry
Portraying
Time Women Woman
Unrealistic
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I go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Contemporary
Galleries
References
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I'll spend a couple of days in Paris, a couple back in London, some time at the factory in Italy... I like travelling, but it can be a struggle to get home for weekends.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Factory
Italy
Weekends
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My recent drawings that personal ones aren't fashion-related. I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.
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Animal
Fantasy
People
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My longest collaborative working relationship is with Katie Grand, the editor-in-chief of 'Love' magazine. Katie's an inspiration and a sounding block. She's got such great taste.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Relationship
Block
Inspiration
Taste
Love Relationship Great
Grand
Longest
Magazine
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My mother was a housewife. My father worked in the agriculture business, but they were very encouraging about everything. When I said I wanted to do art, they were very supportive.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Encouraging
Agriculture
Housewife
Supportive
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I am more interested in people's attitude than someone who is a perfect face. Every time I walk the streets of London, I see someone who interests me. It doesn't matter how old they are.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Streets
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I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.
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Cream
To Be Honest
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If you've invested money in buying a piece, you don't want it to just disintegrate. We all have that first wash anxiety, when that great t-shirt you've just bought shrinks away to nothing.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Buying
Shrinks
Invested
Wash
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I'm lucky that I've worked with the biggest divas in the world. We've had Miss Piggy and Minnie Mouse, so I've got to be careful who I say now, but obviously, I'd love to dress them again.
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Be Careful
Mouse
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I think when wedding dresses are talked about, every woman has a different set of factors in her mind of what it could be because they've been thinking about it possibly for such a long time.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Wedding
Dresses
Factors
Time Thinking Mind
Such A Long Time
Talked
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I went to public and state schools - not at the same time. I did my art foundation course at Harrogate College of Arts. This brilliant tutor suggested I apply to Central Saint Martins. I adored it.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Brilliant
Saint
Tutor
Adored
Apply
Central
Same Time
Schools
Suggested
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The biggest challenge and the thing I find most enjoyable about being a designer is taking everything in and assimilating it for your perspective, hopefully making it relevant and interesting to people.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Interesting
People
Perspective
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There are some great skinny girls, but it's about characters, isn't it? That's what I find attractive. People who've had interesting lives and tell you something that you don't know or are really good fun.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Attractive
Good Fun
Good Great People
Good Great Fun
Attractive People
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My friends and I used to take two-hour trips to the record store in Newcastle, and we started buying copies of The Face and i-D. And then I went to art school, and as time progressed, I ended up where I am now.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Art School
Buying
Copies
Newcastle
Time Art Where
Record Store
Store
Trips
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I had a great teacher who was really encouraging and said I should go to Central Saint Martins. So I worked my socks off, and I managed to get a place there. It was there that I developed a real love for design.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Encouraging
Great Teacher
Real Love
Saint
Love Teacher Great
Central
Love Great Teacher
Socks
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I don't ever think about being a straight man in fashion. It's fine from my perspective. There are a lot of straight men in fashion, believe it or not. But it's fine. Journalists seem to be really interested in it.
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Men
Believe
Fashion
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Everybody's got a lot to their personalities. You're not just one element. There are some days you want something that can be a bit stricter or a bit more disciplined or something a bit more floaty and a bit freer.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Just One
Disciplined
Element
Freer
Personalities
Stricter
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Women I've known have always been quite strong and confident women. Sure, I've got some friends who aren't so overtly confident, or at least don't appear that way. But when you get to know them, they are very much so.
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Appear
Women Always Way
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Students are up to their eyeballs in loans, and it's going to get even worse. It's going to be hideous, actually. Students are going to be saddled for life. It's going to put a lot of people off going to college, which is a shame.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Eyeballs
Hideous
Even Worse
Loans
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Let's be honest: not everybody can afford to buy £5,000 dresses, so the jewellery is a nice of way of getting the Giles product out into the world and introduce it to people not familiar with the label. QVC is a really good partner to help us do that.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Dresses
Familiar
Jewellery
Good World People
Afford
Introduce
Label
Partner
Product
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I don't believe in a recipe for success. You have to work hard; you may not always get it right - you have to bounce back from situations, and you have to be really focused and determined. It's important to have fun as well. Work shouldn't be a torture.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Bounce
Determined
Torture
Success Work Believe
Success Work Always
Have Fun
Recipe
Work Hard
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I suppose the marine biology was a post-teen thing. I was kind of on my way but I was one of those teenage boys who got to 13, 14 and had no idea what I was going to do. I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.
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Boys
Marine
Teenage
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I like things that are well cut, things that are considered within their detailing. Fabrics that are very developed; specialist jacquards and prints. My clothes are statement pieces. They're decorative, but there's always a subversiveness or an othersidedness to them.
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Cutting
Print
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A lot of people's circumstances can change very, very quickly, and people can move jobs, relationships can break down, something else could happen, and the next thing you know, you can't pay your rent, you can't get the support you require, and you're out on the street.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Circumstances
Change Your People
Next Thing
Rent
Require
Something Else
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With couture, you're going right to the consumer, and that's something we learned from doing trunk shows. You're meeting the client; you're finding out what they like and what they don't like. You've really got your customer there in front of you, so you know what works and what doesn't.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Couture
Your Doing Know
Client
Consumer
Customer
Doing Your Know
Trunk
Meeting
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My designs are slightly subversive in their way; it can be in the cut or the colour, but they're always obtainable: they're not so difficult that a 40-year-old woman wanting to go to a cocktail party looking foxy and a little bit different in something well-made would be alienated by them.
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Colour
Subversive
Alienated
Always Difficult Way
Cocktail
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Katie Grand often comes in from a very different angle than what I've been thinking about. And that really gives it that extra something, because designers can often get stuck in their own view of how the collection can look. I always love the way that she turns it into something else and I kind of let go at that point.
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Giving
Letting Go
Thinking
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I discovered lots of music; electronic synth bands from the mid-'80s like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell and Cabaret Voltaire. My friends and I used to take two-hour trips to the record store in Newcastle and we started buying copies of The Face and i-D. And then I went to art school and as time progressed, I ended up where I am now.
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Art
Cabaret
School
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People often think that the world fashion is so full of a certain pretense that it can't just be about going for something because it suits you and looks great, and it's nicely cut and is made of beautiful fabric. You know, if it has a bit of lightness and playfulness to it, then I think people just respond to that really well.
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Fabric
Lightness
Pretense
Great Beautiful World
Respond
Just Be
Nicely
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I've always drawn a lot. I like the idea of turning a 2-D sketch into a 3-D thing very quickly. And clothing is really good for that. You can draw an idea in the morning and you can see it by the end of the day. I think if it were something like a four-month process to get from the idea to the final thing, I would get quite bored.
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Morning
Bored
Thinking
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I like using odd materials or odd components for embroideries. I've always liked that Elsa Schiaparelli world of playing with unusual objects to make something really beautiful. That's part of the game. We can do things that are lighthearted and playful but we also do things that are quite dark and sinister. I oscillate between the two.
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Beautiful
Dark
World
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We design for a whole range of ages and body types, and we always have done. What's great about us is that the common thing that they all like is an accessible eccentricity of an accessible flamboyance, and I think the super thing about that, it isn't age-specific: you're not only dressing 25-year-olds; we're dressing women from 25 to 65+.
Giles Deacon / Fashion Designer
Eccentricity
Range
Ages
Dressing
Types
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