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Giles Deacon

British Designer

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

Made Individually Piece Couture Then Measure

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

Fashion Parents Eccentric Were Mixed Lace Granny Who

I can be very modern and experimental. Giles Deacon

Very Modern Experimental

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

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. Giles Deacon

You Back Out About Put Because Effort Get Anything Designer

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

Good Good Things Animals Nice Things

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. Giles Deacon

Woman Looking Party Cocktail Difficult Alienated Way Bit Slightly Would Would-Be Something Colour Always Go Different Wanting Little Subversive Little Bit Them Cut Designs

The natural world is a source of inspiration. Giles Deacon

Natural World Inspiration Source Natural World

I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly. Giles Deacon

Telly Never Sitting Front Just

Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really. Giles Deacon

Before Andy Andy Warhol Cecil Warhol Really

Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes. Giles Deacon

You Money Clothes Spend Lot May Want Even

Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed. Giles Deacon

Something Well Because Just Expensive Just Because Mean Less Designed

I don't design for wallflowers. Giles Deacon

Design

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

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. Giles Deacon

Too Kind Like Liked Always Got Historic Serious Jewellery

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

Life People College Worse Hideous Eyeballs Shame Students Put Lot Off Up Get Going Which Even Even Worse Actually Loans

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

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

Everybody Piece Want Wardrobe Why

Clothes that a wallflower would like, that's not my thing. I like people who look interesting. Giles Deacon

People Clothes Would Like Look Interesting Who Thing

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