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DAKS is a much more restrained silhouette, and there's a real emphasis on daywear, outerwear, and tailoring. It's more stripped-down.

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Real, More, Emphasis, Silhouette

That era of designers being away with the fairies is gone... You've got to live in the real world.

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Away, Being, Designers, Fairies

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+.

- Giles Deacon

I Think, About, Accessible, Eccentricity

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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Think, Middle, Private, Bleak

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.

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Love, Collaborative, Longest, Block

People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.

- Giles Deacon

Work, Jacket, Realise, Gown

I can never really comment on rumours.

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Never, Comment, Really, Rumours

With couture, you're going right to the consumer, and that's something we learned from doing trunk shows. You're meeting the client; you're finding out what they like and what they don't like. You've really got your customer there in front of you, so you know what works and what doesn't.

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Doing, Your, Works, Consumer

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.

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Art, Very, Encouraging, Housewife

My friends and I used to take two-hour trips to the record store in Newcastle, and we started buying copies of The Face and i-D. And then I went to art school, and as time progressed, I ended up where I am now.

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School, Used, Copies, Record Store

I was never one for just sitting in front of the telly.

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Never, Just, Front, Telly

Anyone looking for a black cashmere sweater isn't going to come to me.

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Black, Going, Anyone, Sweater

The reason I wanted to work with New Look was that they wanted to stick with one designer and do lots of collections a year.

- Giles Deacon

Reason, New, Lots, Collections

I'll spend a couple of days in Paris, a couple back in London, some time at the factory in Italy... I like travelling, but it can be a struggle to get home for weekends.

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Some, Travelling, Factory, Struggle

People are often a bit more adventurous with swimming costume prints; they like the idea of something a bit more jolly.

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More, Like, Idea, Costume

I am more interested in people's attitude than someone who is a perfect face. Every time I walk the streets of London, I see someone who interests me. It doesn't matter how old they are.

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London, Perfect, Streets, Every Time

I don't like acres of faceless girls walking.

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Walking, Like, Acres, Faceless

I think when wedding dresses are talked about, every woman has a different set of factors in her mind of what it could be because they've been thinking about it possibly for such a long time.

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Woman, Been, I Think, Possibly

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

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Look, Like, Collection, Modelled

With couture, the great thing is that each piece has its own character, and you have space to explore and continue themes season after season.

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Explore, Own, Couture, Season

With couture, it means I get to show fall in July with delivery in September. My clients will be getting their pieces in season.

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Clients, Delivery, Means, Season

Fashion was spontaneous and about getting things done, which I really liked.

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Getting, About, Which, Spontaneous

My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.

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Lace, Granny, Mixed, Eccentric

I liked natural history. I liked the outdoors. And I found the sea quite interesting.

- Giles Deacon

Natural, Found, Outdoors

I really like doing good work and working with good people - that's the thing that drives me.

- Giles Deacon

Work, Doing, Like, Doing Good

I've always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London.

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Big, Always, Been, Board

I am really looking forward to walking past people on the street wearing my clothes and know I am designing for an everyday woman.

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Woman, Past, Forward, Everyday

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.

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Night, Some, Like, Personalities

Everybody's got a lot to their personalities. You're not just one element. There are some days you want something that can be a bit stricter or a bit more disciplined or something a bit more floaty and a bit freer.

- Giles Deacon

Some, Everybody, Disciplined, Personalities

I didn't set out wanting to be a fashion designer from the age of 3. It wasn't that kind of dream.

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Kind, Wanting, Set, Fashion Designer

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