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" Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me. "

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" To restart a brand, you have to make people forget what it was. "

" I feel like if you have balance in life, you have to be consumed by your job because, ultimately, it will never be a job; it will never be something that you feel you're working on. "

" Sometimes you fall out of love with what you do. Some days, you wake up and wish you worked on a farm. "

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" We have this perceived illusion of what the fashion designer does. As an industry, we make it out that this one individual changes the entire face of the earth. I have never said 'me'; it's always 'we.' I am just the big salesman. "

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" When I started at Loewe, I took a year out before we did a collection because I felt we needed to work out all the fundamentals. The pencils, the door handles, the style of the press release, the stone of the buildings, the choice of photographer. "

" I think fashion shows are a full stop. You need a point where there's no return, and fashion shows create a 'That's it; that's the finishing line.' "

" When I do a fashion show, it's not done until it exits out of the door. "

" I collect primarily ceramics but also black-and-white photography and some bits of contemporary. "

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" I've always been massively aware of clothing. "

" I always think the great thing about shirting is that it goes with jeans, and jeans are probably the most modern, functional garment that ever existed. That is what is so great about shirting - it is an up-play-down-play. "

" I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say. "

" When I think of Uniqlo, I think of things that are perfectly made, that people have spent a lot of time considering. "

" My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for the Irish rugby team. "

" In London, what I do on the weekend is be a person and have my own life. In Paris, it is going from this hotel to the office and back again. But I love it. "

" I find it very difficult to see the boundary between womenswear and menswear. It's bizarre the ways in which society reacts; they find it difficult to comprehend seeing parts of the body on a man. I think it's fascinating. "

" I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash. "

" I've been a fan and collector of Lucie Rie for years. "

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" My brother and sister were very sporty. They all did rugby. I was very into performing arts. I went to the National Youth Music Theatre. I was one of those singing, clapping children. "

" Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back. "

" The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist. "

" One thing I think is great is that if you use social media really well - in a natural, personal way - you can kind of see what's missing. You can see when you're bored of something or of someone. "