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Inside the Studio | Giles Deacon | Chapter I

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  • Imran Amed

"Unstructured exploration..."

In the years before he became an overnight household name in the United Kingdom, when Linda Evangelista walked down his runway for free, Giles Deacon spent more than 10 years exploring not the world, but rather the people and environment in which he lived.

The first chapter of Giles' story explains how he came to be a fashion designer and launch his own label, GILES. It reveals how the accidents of life can change the course of fashion history.

Inside the Studio | Giles Deacon was generously supported by Swarovski

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