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The joy of dressing is an art.
I listen and talk to God daily.
If you want easy, don't pick fashion.
Women are women, and hurray for that.
Fashion is above all an art of change.
Everything looks better in the morning.
I have a very haute couture way of working.
You only get a short life, so take chances.
What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.
I love New York. But the energy is so intense
Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel
I love New York. But the energy is so intense.
Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.
But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a
I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies
I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.
I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.
There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams
Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future
Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.
Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do
I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.
You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.
I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it
Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.
The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.
You shouldn't ask why do you wear a hat? What you really should be asking is why are you not? How can a look be complete without a hat?
But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.
I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.
I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.
The print is devised so that I can cut the dresses on the bias, so they work around the body. It's not like a regular print that you buy and ends up being a vertical and a horizontal placement. It works around the body.
I've lost, but I also gained a lot. I'm a creative person, and no one can take that away from me. I've been told I committed professional suicide because it was the only escape from the terrible pressures I was facing. What do you think?
The new Galliano will be even bigger and better... I love working, it's my therapy. I can draw until four in the morning every night and not feel tired... I've come face to face with my demons, medicine and alcohol. I have rebuilt myself again.
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.
I think people should have fun with fashion, should enjoy wearing beautiful clothes--but also not save everything for the best. Fashion is there to be enjoyed, to be indulged--to wow in. Don't save it for Sunday best only. Get it out of the tissue paper and be sensational every day.
If I didn't already sense that I was different, I certainly was reminded, whether by my parents or by the other school kids. Not just reminded. Told... I was made to believe it wasn't right. If I went a little bit too off - slap! It was Dad's upbringing and it was Victorian, and that's the way he was.
McQueen was daring, original, exciting. He shook up the establishment with his creativity and understood what it takes to be a great British ambassador for fashion. I admired him very much. He was a fashion revolutionary that, like me, made the journey from [Central] Saint Martins to Paris where he put his own unique mark on the industry. He will not be forgotten.
In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.