Top 45 Giles Deacon Quotes

People are often a bit more adventurous with swimming costume prints; they like the idea of something a bit more jolly.

For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.

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

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

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.

I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead.

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.

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.

Anyone looking for a black cashmere sweater isn’t going to come to me.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

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.

‘Irony’ is such an over-used word.

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

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

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.

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

I am really looking forward to walking past people on the street wearing my clothes and know I am designing for an everyday woman.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I don’t design for wallflowers.

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.

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.

My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.

I believe in the democracy of design.

I don’t really have a mentor.

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.

DAKS is a much more restrained silhouette, and there’s a real emphasis on daywear, outerwear, and tailoring. It’s more stripped-down.

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

A healthy body really does make for a healthy mind.

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

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old… homelessness can happen to everybody.

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

I’ve always liked historic jewellery that’s got a kind of quirkiness or playfulness to it; I like that it’s not too serious.

People don’t necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

With all my clients I work with, they all have their absolute specialness about them.

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.

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.

The reason I wanted to work with New Look was that they wanted to stick with one designer and do lots of collections a year.

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.

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

The customer who likes to be noticed is important to us.

There’s one thing I would like to do on the high street, and that’s something different to what’s been done before. So, who knows what that could be.