Louise Wilson

“I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.”

“Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.”

“People think I'm rude. I'm not rude; I'm just not networking. It's just honesty.”

“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.”

“My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.”

“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.”

“Youth re-energises.”

“I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.”

“We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won.”

“The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.”

“I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.”

“I may sound like a corny bastard, but I love fashion.”

“Fashion's transient - it moves.”

“I wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.”

“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 always hate it when fashion is trivialised.”

“I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.”

“In fashion, you're privileged because you're consistently working with a vanguard of youth.”

“Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.”

“I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.”