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" I can never really comment on rumours. "
Giles Deacon
I Can
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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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" With all my clients I work with, they all have their absolute specialness about them. "
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" Anyone looking for a black cashmere sweater isn't going to come to me. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I don't like po-faced fashion. "
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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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" I believe in the democracy of design. "
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" I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness. "
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" I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting. "
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" I try to exercise three to four times a week. "
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" Clothes that a wallflower would like, that's not my thing. I like people who look interesting. "
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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 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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You
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" A healthy body really does make for a healthy mind. "
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Really
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" Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed. "
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Just
" 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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You
Effort
Because
" 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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Honest
Old
World
" I don't like acres of faceless girls walking. "
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Like
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" I'm interested in women who have got character and experience and an opinion about things. "
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Character
Experience
Opinion
" 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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Love
Great
Go
" If a piece is individually made to measure, then it's couture. "
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Measure
Then
Couture
" 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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Say
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" It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" When I was younger, I wanted to be a marine biologist, among other things. "
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