Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Giles Deacon

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Giles Deacon is an English fashion designer, Creative Director and Founder of Giles Deacon group, a fashion enterprise. Deacon joined the Paris Fashion Week in 2016. Deacon has been known to challenge the traditional ideas of womenswear and often uses wild prints and pop culture references in his designs. Deacon was employed by the fashion houses Bottega Veneta and Gucci, before founding his own label, GILES, in 2003. He launched his first collection for GILES at the 2004 London Fashion Week and was named "Best New Designer" at the British Fashion Awards.

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With couture, it means I get to show fall in July with delivery in September. My clients will be getting their pieces in season.

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Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job!

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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.

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I love London. Wherever I've lived, I've always had my flat here.

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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.

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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.

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Due to the hectic, non-stop nature of my work, I'm always using my BlackBerry to stay in touch with my studio, wherever I am.

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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.

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I can be very modern and experimental.

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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.

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I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.

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I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

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It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.

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I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.

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I love historical references.

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You take it very seriously when you start any project, but not everything in life ends up where you think it's going to be.

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If a piece is individually made to measure, then it's couture.

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My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.

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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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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.

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The women that wear my clothes would want a pink BlackBerry in their handbag.

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A healthy body really does make for a healthy mind.

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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.

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I really like doing good work and working with good people - that's the thing that drives me.

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I think a bit of jewellery that cheers you up for the day isn't a bad thing.

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Why shouldn't we want everybody to have a piece of Giles in their wardrobe?

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We want to be the go-to business for super-special daywear and eveningwear, to focus on what we are known for and what our customers want from us.

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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.

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I don't really have a mentor.

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I can never really comment on rumours.

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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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'Irony' is such an over-used word.

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I believe in the democracy of design.

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I don't like acres of faceless girls walking.

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I liked the fact DAKS was an unknown quantity. It's more like Gucci before Tom Ford got there. There's a lot you can do.

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Fashion was spontaneous and about getting things done, which I really liked.

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I did an art foundation course, and I knew I wanted to do something in a creative field. And fashion just seemed like the most fun.

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I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.'

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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.

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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.

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Animals. They're nice, aren't they? They're good things, animals.

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I like to have a swim in the morning, a great way to start the day.

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Pretty much hated school. I never really found my footing. I just didn't like lessons.

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Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

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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.

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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.

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I'm interested in women who have got character and experience and an opinion about things.

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I don't like po-faced fashion.

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The effort you put into anything when you're a designer is 100% because it's all about what you get back out from it.

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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.

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I've been a fella in the fashion industry for a very long time now, and the industry has been very good to me.

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I'd really love to dress Lauren Bacall. She's incredibly interesting - a gorgeous, stylish woman with a strong personality.

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I very much like Christopher Kane. He actually did a work placement with me, and you could spot his talent straight away.

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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.

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That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

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For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

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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.

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Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.

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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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When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things.

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Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Giles Deacon

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