Amanda Harlech
Amanda Harlech
Amanda Harlech is a creative consultant and writer with a long association with the couturiers John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1997...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
children
I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.
closed dismissed
Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.
biggest children failure happened haunts love
I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.
artistic clarify feeling front process sitting
I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.
cult dress happiness life tied wonderful
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.
fear people
I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.
attention goes les love power wear
Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.
fiercely good
I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
halfway
I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.
gap good
You know that gap between where you are and where you'd like to be? Within that gap, there is an ache and an aspirational leap, which is very good for writing.
although muses people pull
People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.
home
Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.
women
As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!
fashion party artist
I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.