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" Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it. "

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" Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry. "

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

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

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" 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'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion. "

" 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 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. "

" I love hard work, energy, feeling involved. "

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

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" I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough! "

" 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. "

" 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. "