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John Galliano [1960-0] British
Rank: 103
Designer, Fashion Designer


John Charles Galliano CBE, RDI is a Gibraltar-born British fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy, Christian Dior, and his own label John Galliano. 

Women, Art, Dad, Travel



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But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.
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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. Travel
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I have a very haute couture way of working.
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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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Women are women, and hurray for that. Women
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There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art. Art
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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 don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies. Women
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I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.
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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. Dad
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You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
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Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
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Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.
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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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I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
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I'm ready to create.
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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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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 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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I listen and talk to God daily.
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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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I love New York. But the energy is so intense.
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My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.
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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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I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.
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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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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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