I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.
— Louise Wilson
I always hate it when fashion is trivialised.
I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.
I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.
Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.
We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.
There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people - irritating as they are.
I try to stop my students doing random things on the Internet or putting work online. It doesn't get them jobs. This concept of being noticed, I don't know what it brings you.
A lot of fashion might seem boring, but it is actually quite fun: the inside, the outside, the silhouette... All the different finishes. That's a skill.
In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all the knowledge in it; you'd read it over and over again.
At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.
I was going to do business studies in Newcastle because there were a lot of nightclubs. My father said if I went that route, he'd never speak to me again: credit where credit's due.
I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.
Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.
I'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.
There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism.
I may sound like a corny bastard, but I love fashion.
I had a fabulous childhood. Not many people have an outdoor tennis court that you're allowed to put your ponies on and pretend you're at Hickstead.
When you're responsible for leading a group of young people, you have to be positive. If you're not, you shouldn't be in your job, should you?
I never know what I want, but always know what I don't want.
I can't imagine taking up running.
In 'Who's Who,' my hobbies are listed as eating, sleeping, and voicing one's opinion. Not necessarily the right opinion, but it's mine.
I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.
I wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.
Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.
I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.
I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.
Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.
I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.
Fashion's transient - it moves.
We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.
What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.
Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.
You can't refuse to move forward when you're educating in design, because that's what we're asking students to do the whole time.
I love hard work, energy, feeling involved.
I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.
Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of.
I love to-do lists.
The press always pick on British fashion, but I don't think that there are more successful young designers than in Paris or Milan. It's all a myth.
My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!
Now there is tons of information available online. 90% of students rarely look at magazines in their intended format because they're looking at them on a computer screen. They don't understand the layout, so when they come to putting their own portfolios together, they have no spatial awareness.
I've always loved books.
I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.
I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.
I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.
Youth re-energises.
The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.
