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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Giles Deacon

Beautiful

World

Think

" 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. "

Giles Deacon

Love

Great

" I'm interested in women who have got character and experience and an opinion about things. "

" 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 go to contemporary galleries all around the world when I can. There's always something historical and something contemporary; those are my rock references. "

Giles Deacon

I Can

World

" I don't really have a mentor. "

Giles Deacon

Mentor

Really

" Anyone looking for a black cashmere sweater isn't going to come to me. "

Giles Deacon

Going

Black

" With couture, you're going right to the consumer, and that's something we learned from doing trunk shows. You're meeting the client; you're finding out what they like and what they don't like. You've really got your customer there in front of you, so you know what works and what doesn't. "

" I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.' "

Giles Deacon

Holiday

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

" I've always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London. "

" You take it very seriously when you start any project, but not everything in life ends up where you think it's going to be. "

" My mother was a housewife. My father worked in the agriculture business, but they were very encouraging about everything. When I said I wanted to do art, they were very supportive. "

" People should just get over themselves. "

" 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. "

" Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job! "

" 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. "

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

" A lot of people's circumstances can change very, very quickly, and people can move jobs, relationships can break down, something else could happen, and the next thing you know, you can't pay your rent, you can't get the support you require, and you're out on the street. "

" Clothes that a wallflower would like, that's not my thing. I like people who look interesting. "

Giles Deacon

Interesting

Clothes

" Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed. "

" I can never really comment on rumours. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly. "

" I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me. "

Giles Deacon

See

Look

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

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

Giles Deacon

Faceless

Acres

" 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. "