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
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.
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.
fiercely good
I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
children
I don't think I am a proud person, but I think my children are incredible... I think I am part of that.