John Galliano Quotes

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

I listen and talk to God daily.

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.

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.

Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.

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.

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.

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.

Everything looks better in the morning.

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

My dresses are very reasonably priced, for dresses that are cut on the body.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense.

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.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams

If you want easy, don't pick fashion.

Women are women, and hurray for that.

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.

What about David Bowie? He's a sexy creature.

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.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

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.

The joy of dressing is an art.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel.

I'm ready to create.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

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.

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?

I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.

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.