Giles Deacon Quotes

You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.

A shift toward access and service would deepen the big-box retailer's relationship to customers and win their loyalty. A service focus would bring more rewarding, frequent, and lasting contact with grateful customers.

We're not waiting for the fashion cycle to have 180 buyers come in and see the collection and go, 'We like it, we'll buy it, and we'll have it in June.' The only one we're selling to is Net-A-Porter, and the rest is through our site.

The couture is what a certain kind of clientele wears. But it's amusing to do because you do it piece by piece. It's another concept. It's much more work.

[There is] a breed of fashion models

Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

I'd still say that visiting the stores and listening to our folks was one of the most valuable uses of my time as an executive. But really, our best ideas usually do come from the folks in the stores. Period.

I tried to put direct to consumer through a wholesales channel - the industry was just not ready to adapt and change. The other issue I had was with Jimmy Choo.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.

Customers will want to talk to you if they believe you can solve their problems.

If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.

New media is ... an amazing form of direct marketing in that you really get a sense of who your customer is, and you also get to know those people who may not be your customers yet but are aspirational and are hoping to be.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

Selling is a person-to-person business. You cannot send the sales manual out to make the sale. Sales manuals have no legs and no voice.

For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

I've never wanted to be in fashion. Because if you're in fashion, you're going to be out of fashion.

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.

I love clothes and fashion more than music

We've found that customers are very open. They'll tell you what's going on, what's working and what's not. They're looking for help.