John Galliano Quotes

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

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.

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

The joy of dressing is an art.

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.

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?

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

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.

If you want easy, don't pick fashion.

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

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.

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.

Men don't want another man to look at their woman because they don't know how to handle it

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.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

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

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

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

You only get a short life, so take chances.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do

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.

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.

I love New York. But the energy is so intense

Everything looks better in the morning.

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

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

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

Women are women, and hurray for that.

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

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 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?

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 listen and talk to God daily.

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

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.

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.