Top 40 John Galliano Quotes
#2. But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.
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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#10. 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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#12. Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.
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#15. Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.
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#17. Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
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#18. 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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#20. 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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#21. My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.
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#22. I love New York. But the energy is so intense.
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#24. Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
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#25. I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.
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#26. You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
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#27. I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.
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#29. 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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#30. I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.
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#31. There's room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
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#33. 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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#34. Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do.
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#39. 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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#40. Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it.
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