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.
If you want easy, don’t pick fashion.
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.
Sure, I’d like to be like the House of Chanel.
Everything looks better in the morning.
I’m an accomplice to helping women get what they want.
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
Women are women, and hurray for that.
I don’t love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.
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?
Yeah, that’s what I’m working for. The couture house of the future.
Fashion is above all an art of change.
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.
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.
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.
I have a very haute couture way of working.
What about David Bowie? He’s a sexy creature.
I listen and talk to God daily.
You’re only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.
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.