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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. "
Giles Deacon
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Mother
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" 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. "
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Great
" I very much like Christopher Kane. He actually did a work placement with me, and you could spot his talent straight away. "
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" The customer who likes to be noticed is important to us. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" Animals. They're nice, aren't they? They're good things, animals. "
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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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" My longest collaborative working relationship is with Katie Grand, the editor-in-chief of 'Love' magazine. Katie's an inspiration and a sounding block. She's got such great taste. "
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Great
Love
" I really like doing good work and working with good people - that's the thing that drives me. "
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Work
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People
" I love London. Wherever I've lived, I've always had my flat here. "
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Here
" I don't believe in a recipe for success. You have to work hard; you may not always get it right - you have to bounce back from situations, and you have to be really focused and determined. It's important to have fun as well. Work shouldn't be a torture. "
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" People should just get over themselves. "
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Over
People
" 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 don't like acres of faceless girls walking. "
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" I sometimes sit and draw people on the bus, or some fantasy hybrid animal. You know, wherever the hand will lead. "
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Know
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" People are often a bit more adventurous with swimming costume prints; they like the idea of something a bit more jolly. "
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" 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. "
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Looking
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" Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that. "
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Things
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" Fashion was spontaneous and about getting things done, which I really liked. "
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Done
Things
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" I don't really see the point in planning to show off-schedule. I think it's things like showing on-schedule that helps London be organised as it is. "
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London
Think
Show
" 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+. "
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Great
" I like to have a swim in the morning, a great way to start the day. "
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Morning
Great
" 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. "
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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. "
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Mind
Long
" Rooney Mara is someone I'd like to dress; we've not worked with her before and she certainly has very interesting personal style. "
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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. "
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Foundation
College
" My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways. "
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" I love historical references. "
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" Cecil Beaton was Andy Warhol before Andy Warhol, really. "
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Really
Warhol