John Galliano quotes:
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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.
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Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
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What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.
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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.
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Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
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Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future
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I love New York. But the energy is so intense.
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Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.
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Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.
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I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
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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.
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I listen and talk to God daily.
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I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.
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I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.
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But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.
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I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.
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Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
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I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies
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The joy of dressing is an art.
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I have a very haute couture way of working.
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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.
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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.
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You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
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The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
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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.
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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?
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If you want easy, don't pick fashion.
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Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it
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My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.
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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.
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But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a
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You only get a short life, so take chances.
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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.
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I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do
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I love New York. But the energy is so intense
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Everything looks better in the morning.
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Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Fashion is above all an art of change.
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Women are women, and hurray for that.