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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 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like po-faced fashion. "

Giles Deacon

Fashion

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

Giles Deacon

Fashion

Good

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

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

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

Giles Deacon

Pretty

School

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

Giles Deacon

Costume

" I can be very modern and experimental. "

" 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. "

" I don't like acres of faceless girls walking. "

Giles Deacon

Faceless

Acres

" People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence. "

" A healthy body really does make for a healthy mind. "

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

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

" 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. "

Giles Deacon

Different

Street

" 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. "

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

" I love historical references. "

" 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. "

" I can never really comment on rumours. "

" 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. "

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

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