41 Facts About Giles Deacon

Giles Deacon was born on 1969 and is a British fashion designer, Creative Director and Founder of Giles Deacon group, a fashion enterprise.

Giles Deacon launched his first collection for GILES at the 2004 London Fashion Week and was named "Best New Designer" at the British Fashion Awards.

Giles Deacon's designs have been met with critical acclaim and have sparked a renewed interest in London fashion.

Giles Deacon retained the position until September 2011, when he and Ungaro mutually decided to end their collaboration.

Giles Deacon launched his first couture collection in 2016 at Paris.

Giles Deacon was born in Darlington, County Durham, but grew up near Ullswater in the Lake District.

Giles Deacon is the youngest child of David, an agricultural salesman, and Judith, a housewife.

Giles Deacon attended Barnard Castle School in County Durham which he credits with instilling in him "the mindset of aesthetics".

Alongside schoolmate and friend Glenn Hugill, now a major television executive, he pursued interests in music and film as "portal to other things that we didn't really know about" Giles Deacon initially wanted to become a marine biologist, but he failed his chemistry A-level.

Giles Deacon later joined Harrogate College of Arts, where he completed an art foundation course.

Giles Deacon chose to travel and gain experiences at fashion houses, before starting his own label.

Giles Deacon was dismissed in 2001 when the Gucci group bought the company and terminated his contract, so they could hire German designer, Tomas Maier.

Giles Deacon was forced to leave Gucci after one season when he became ill from an infected salivary gland.

Once he had recovered, Deacon decided to take out a loan to start his own label and he launched GILES in 2003.

Giles Deacon launched his first collection at London Fashion Week in February 2004, styled by his friend Katie Grand, the show saw models Karen Elson, Lily Cole, Eva Herzigova and Linda Evangelista walking the catwalk.

Giles Deacon counted Thandiwe Newton, Princess Beatrice and Scarlett Johansson among his clients.

In 2009, Giles Deacon stated that since he launched his label, he has seen the turnover double every year and sales increased during the recession.

Giles Deacon's studio is at the Truman Brewery in East London.

Giles Deacon became the fifth designer to be hired by the house since it was sold to entrepreneur Asim Abdullah in 2005.

On 19 September 2010, Giles Deacon made a return to London Fashion Week, after spending two years showing his collection in Paris.

Giles Deacon showed his first collection for Ungaro in October 2010.

Vogue previewed the new collection, which was designed by Giles Deacon, styled by Grand and accessorised by Katie Hillier and Stephen Jones, on their website.

From June 2011, Giles Deacon took part in the Channel 4 entertainment series, New Look Style the Nation.

Giles Deacon previously appeared on Britain's Next Top Model as a judge.

In 2013, Giles Deacon presented the first ever fashion exhibition at the William Morris Gallery in London.

Giles Deacon told Steff Yotka of Vogue that he had always wanted to create more couture pieces, and that he chose to concentrate on high end fashion after realising that the pieces he and his team had produced were selling well.

Giles Deacon designed the wedding dress of Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Princess of Wales, in May 2017.

Giles Deacon has been known to challenge the traditional ideas of womenswear and often uses wild prints and pop culture references in his designs.

Giles Deacon said, "My dresses should be worn by young, cool girls just as much as by 55 to 60-year-old women".

At the 2008 London Fashion Week, Giles Deacon presented a collection with a futuristic theme based on the 1980s arcade game Pac-Man.

Susannah Frankel of The Independent has said that Giles Deacon's collections are "a much-needed injection of grand-scale glamour".

Giles Deacon has worked on many collaborations with companies including Sky, Converse and Evoke, with whom he created his first jewellery collection.

Giles Deacon was then appointed to design for the classic British tailoring label, Daks.

Giles Deacon showed his first and second collections for the brand in 2007 and his third in 2008.

Giles Deacon's best known collaboration has been with the High Street fashion chain New Look.

The collection called Gold by Giles Deacon began in March 2007.

In late 2015, Giles Deacon designed a womenswear collection for Debenhams.

In 2004, Giles Deacon was named Best New Designer at the British Fashion Awards and in the following year he was given the Young Designer Award at Elle magazine's Style Awards.

Giles Deacon was named Best British Designer at the 2007 Elle Style Awards.

Two years later, Giles Deacon won the French ANDAM Fashion Award's Grand Prix, becoming the second consecutive British designer to win the award following Gareth Pugh's win in 2008.

Giles Deacon has been in a relationship with actress Gwendoline Christie since early 2013.