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It's important to offer well-thought-out pieces at lower prices.
Just because something is less expensive shouldn't mean it is less well designed.
Let's be honest: not everybody can afford to buy £5,000 dresses, so the jewellery is a nice of way of getting the Giles product out into the world and introduce it to people not familiar with the label. QVC is a really good partner to help us do that.
Making your own clothes is great - but don't make everything, or I'll be out of a job!
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.
My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.
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.
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.
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.
My parents weren't into fashion. I didn't have an eccentric granny who mixed lace mantillas with tweed.
One day I'll do a Dorian Gray, and there will be a picture in the attic. I'll look like Helen Daniels from 'Neighbours' after her stroke.
People are always saying, 'You use irony,' and it's like, actually, we don't use irony: we use wit and playfulness and irreverence.
People are often a bit more adventurous with swimming costume prints; they like the idea of something a bit more jolly.
People don't necessarily realise that there can be just as much work on a quiet jacket as an overblown gown.
People often think that the world fashion is so full of a certain pretense that it can't just be about going for something because it suits you and looks great, and it's nicely cut and is made of beautiful fabric. You know, if it has a bit of lightness and playfulness to it, then I think people just respond to that really well.
People should just get over themselves.
Pretty much hated school. I never really found my footing. I just didn't like lessons.
Rooney Mara is someone I'd like to dress; we've not worked with her before and she certainly has very interesting personal style.
Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.
Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.
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