Top 35 John Galliano Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The joy of dressing is an art.”

— John Galliano

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2. “Be reckless enough to gamble all or nothing to follow your dreams.”

— John Galliano

3. “Everything looks better in the morning.”

— John Galliano

4. “You only get a short life, so take chances.”

— John Galliano

5. “If you want easy, don’t pick fashion.”

— John Galliano

6. “I have a very haute couture way of working.”

— John Galliano

7. “Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald’s, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.”

— John Galliano

8. “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.”

— John Galliano

9. “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.”

— John Galliano

10. “You’re only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.”

— John Galliano

11. “Fashion is above all an art of change.”

— John Galliano

12. “Sure, I’d like to be like the House of Chanel.”

— John Galliano

13. “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?”

— John Galliano

14. “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.”

— John Galliano

15. “I listen and talk to God daily.”

— John Galliano

16. “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.”

— John Galliano

17. “I don’t care about money. I really don’t care. I just want to do what I do.”

— John Galliano

18. “But I’m not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.”

— John Galliano

19. “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?”

— John Galliano

20. “Dressing up. People just don’t do it anymore. We have to change that.”

— John Galliano

21. “I don’t love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.”

— John Galliano

22. “Men don’t want another man to look at their woman because they don’t know how to handle it.”

— John Galliano

23. “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.”

— John Galliano

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24. “What about David Bowie? He’s a sexy creature.”

— John Galliano

25. “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.”

— John Galliano

26. “Yeah, that’s what I’m working for. The couture house of the future.”

— John Galliano

27. “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.”

— John Galliano

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

— John Galliano

29. “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.”

— John Galliano

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

— John Galliano

31. “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.”

— John Galliano

32. “I’m an accomplice to helping women get what they want.”

— John Galliano

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

— John Galliano

34. “Women are women, and hurray for that.”

— John Galliano

35. “I love New York. But the energy is so intense.”

— John Galliano