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Fashion's transient - it moves.
I'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.
I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.
Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of.
I may sound like a corny bastard, but I love fashion.
Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.
There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism.
I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.
I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.
I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.
I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.
I'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen.
My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.
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.
Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.
The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.
I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought.
In fashion, you're privileged because you're consistently working with a vanguard of youth.
We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.
I wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.
I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'
As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.
I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!
I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.
Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.
At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.
I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.
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.
When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want to know.
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.
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've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.
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.
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.
A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.
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.
Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the banking industry
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.
I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'
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.
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 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.
You can't subvert knowledge until you have knowledge... At the same time, I respect a student coming at it from a totally different position and trying to move it forward, and not falling into the rattrap of work that came before.
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.
Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.
I absolutely loathe and hate the work... But I love youth. I realise how lucky it is being with youth, and what an honour that is. Nowhere else could a fat 47-year-old speak to people as young as this. They'd think you were a paedophile.
Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a map, and they never leave their hotel room because they didn't think to bring a bikini. I'm full of bizarre analogies like that.