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
fashion style trends
Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends,
thinking stories bits
I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.
home wind silence
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
memories childhood jars
My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.
eye past passing-moments
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
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.
women
As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!
home
Writing is something I should have done more of, it's a form of coming home.
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.
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.
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.
fiercely good
I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
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.
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.