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John Charles Galliano CBE, RDI (born November 28, 1960) is a Gibraltar-born British-Spanish fashion designer who was the head designer of French fashion companies Givenchy (July 1995 to October 1996), Christian Dior (October 1996 to March 2011), and his own label John Galliano (1988 to 2011). At present, Galliano is the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela.

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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.

Beautiful, Fashion, Fun, People, Sensational, Think

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.

Body, Cutting, Devised, Dresses, Placement, Works

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.

Becomes, Body, Clothes, Layers, Putting

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

Dream, Enough, Gamble, Reckless

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.

Believe, Discipline, Human, Like, Weakness

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

Design, John, Long, Men

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.

Boys, Good Day, Offering, Real, Take, Women

I love New York. But the energy is so intense

Energy, Intense, Love, New York, York

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.

Cutting, Details, Eye, Men, Things

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

Anymore, Dressing, Dressing Up, Dressings, People

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

Confidence, Evening, Fashion, Football, Personality, Style

Women are women, and hurray for that.

Hurray, Women

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?

Creative, Escape, Facing, Suicide, Thinking, Told

The joy of dressing is an art.

Art, Dressing, Fashion, Joy

Everything looks better in the morning.

Everything, Looks, Morning

I listen and talk to God daily.

Daily, God, Listen, Talk

I have a very haute couture way of working.

Couture, Haute Couture, Way, Working

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

Collection, Enormous, Lasts, Pressure

You only get a short life, so take chances.

Chance, Life, Short, Short Life, Take, Take A Chance

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.

Creativity, Fashion, Forgotten, Like, Unique

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