Giles Deacon

I go to L.A. three or four times a year. It's great for research. ”

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

I don't really see the point in planning to show off-schedule. I think it's things like showing on-schedule that helps London be organised as it is. ”

Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job! ”

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. ”

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. ”

I believe in the democracy of design. ”

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. ”

There's one thing I would like to do on the high street, and that's something different to what's been done before. So, who knows what that could be. ”

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. ”