Zitat des Tages von Giles Deacon:
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.
Anyone looking for a black cashmere sweater isn't going to come to me.
People should just get over themselves.
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.
I can be very modern and experimental.
I don't like po-faced fashion.
I like to have a swim in the morning, a great way to start the day.
My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.
Clothes that a wallflower would like, that's not my thing. I like people who look interesting.
I love London. Wherever I've lived, I've always had my flat here.
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.
For me, green is more about cycling than recycling.
I love historical references.
I do like designing clothes that are - not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.
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.
The women that wear my clothes would want a pink BlackBerry in their handbag.
I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly.
I've been a fella in the fashion industry for a very long time now, and the industry has been very good to me.
Even if you have a lot of money, you may not want to spend a lot of it on clothes.
The natural world is a source of inspiration.
My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.
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.
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.
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.
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+.
Due to the hectic, non-stop nature of my work, I'm always using my BlackBerry to stay in touch with my studio, wherever I am.
I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.
I've always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London.
Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed.
The customer who likes to be noticed is important to us.
People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.
People are often a bit more adventurous with swimming costume prints; they like the idea of something a bit more jolly.
I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.
A healthy body really does make for a healthy mind.
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.
I don't design for wallflowers.