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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. "

Giles Deacon

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Looking

Party

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Focus

Want

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Different

Street

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Giles Deacon

Year

Three

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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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Love

Great

" 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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Costume

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