Giles Deacon

“I don't design for wallflowers.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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+.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“אופנה היא דבר שכל הזמן משתנה ויצירה תלויה יותר בבחירה של המעצב מאשר בטרנד.”

“אני לא מאמין בקונספט של מוזה, הרעיון הזה של לעצב לאיזו דמות מיתית גדולה מהחיים. כשאני מעצב יש לי תמיד בראש שש נשים שונות, שש חברות קרובות שלי, כל אחת מהן לגמרי שונה סגנונית האחת מהשנייה, ויש להן צורות גוף שונות, ואם אני מרגיש שרעיון מסוים יתאים לכולן – אני מוציא אותו לפועל.”

“אני מתעניין מאוד בחיבור בין אופנה לטכנולוגיה, מדע והעתיד. כמעצב חשוב מאוד לקחת בחשבון את העובדה שאנשים קונים את הבגדים ומכבסים אותם ואתה צריך לדאוג שהם ייראו טוב אחרי כביסה וימשיכו לשרת את האנשים שלובשים אותם.”

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

“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.”

“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.”