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" 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. "

Giles Deacon

Time

Mind

Long

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Giles Deacon

Fashion

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

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

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

" I don't really have a mentor. "

Giles Deacon

Mentor

Really

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" We want to be the go-to business for super-special daywear and eveningwear, to focus on what we are known for and what our customers want from us. "

Giles Deacon

Focus

Want

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

" 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. "

" 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+. "

" 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

" 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. "

Giles Deacon

Life

Night

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "