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Giles Deacon & Tim Blanks

  • 18/11/2023
  • St Margaret's
Fashion designer Giles Deacon and journalist Tim Blanks on-stage at Festival of Fashion in 2023
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Giles Deacon on-stage in 2023 at Festival of Fashion in Braemar

Conversations in Couture

London-based couture designer and illustrator, Giles Deacon who mixes fashion, fine art, theatre and grand-scale glamour, was in conversation with legendary fashion journalist Tim Blanks, who has written for the industry’s leading titles including Vogue, GQ and the Financial Times and is now Editor-at-Large of The Business of Fashion.

Giles trained at Central St Martins alongside Alexander McQueen and worked at Gucci and Bottega Veneta before starting his own label GILES in 2003.

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