Giles Deacon Quotes

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

People get this very romantic vision of a fashion designer who in one night makes 25 sketches and in the morning throws them on the table and there are a lot of women in white aprons with the pins on the lapel and they start to grab the sketches and... It's not like that.

To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and talented as that.

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

Many a fashion designer's career was founded using packs upon packs of Polaroids, and though we love them, we forget that the image quality was often circumspect.

I love the personality of Schiaparelli so much.

I've never liked to conceptualize too much about fashion, like it was art or science, which it is not. But it's nice when there's a clear idea behind a collection.

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

For me, one of the biggest designers is Azzedine Alaia. Everything he is doing is fantastic.

Ava DuVernay is my personal Phil Jackson. She's a perfect coach.

I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.

There are so many designers that I love, and I'm so lucky that I get to work with so many of them and sometimes spend time with them.

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.

The whole process of being one of the 10 finalists for the 'Vogue' Fashion Fund award has to be my biggest achievement to date. Meeting Anna Wintour, Diane von Furstenberg, etc., has been an amazing experience that even now gives me goose bumps when I think about it.

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

Working with Stephen Sprouse was always one of my very favorite things. I was always a fan of his.

I love Simone Rocha. I just think she's really clever.

There have been so many photographers and editors who mentored me over the years. At the very beginning, the person who taught me the most was Arthur Elgort. I always loved working with him. We traveled a lot together.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

I got to train with some of the best and have critics like Oscar de la Renta and Calvin Klein. As a student under Calvin Klein, my project was to make a coat, and then years later, I was hired at Calvin, by Calvin, to design coats for him. It came full circle!

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.