Giles Spring 2012 RTW
"This is so not a collection about Black Swan," Giles Deacon
said backstage before his show in London. Rather, it was a panoply of
interlocking, stream-of-consciousness references. The Silver Swan, the
automaton from the Bowes Museum near Deacon's hometown in County Durham,
led to society swans photographed by Cecil Beaton, whom the designer
dubbed "the Andy Warhol of his day." Deacon was also influenced by
Beaton's Symphony in Silver portrait of his sister Baba; that led him to Warhol's Factory and Silver Clouds, which cued the runway backdrop.
