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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.
Giles Deacon
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I can be very modern and experimental.
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I think a bit of jewellery that cheers you up for the day isn't a bad thing.
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I love historical references.
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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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The effort you put into anything when you're a designer is 100% because it's all about what you get back out from it.
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I've been a fella in the fashion industry for a very long time now, and the industry has been very good to me.
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Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.
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Animals. They're nice, aren't they? They're good things, animals.
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Pretty much hated school. I never really found my footing. I just didn't like lessons.
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Fashion was spontaneous and about getting things done, which I really liked.
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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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