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
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.
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.
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.
memories childhood jars
My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.
home wind silence
At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.
thinking stories bits
I'm interested in stories. I think I'm a bit of a pathfinder.
fashion style trends
Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends,
art purple orange
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.
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.
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.