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" I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.' "

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

" I never know what I want, but always know what I don't want. "

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

" At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education. "

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

" There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism. "

" What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it. "

" I love to-do lists. "

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

" I can't imagine taking up running. "

" I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. "

" 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. "

" Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work. "

" 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. "

" Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much. "

" 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'd love to be charming and softly spoken, but that's never going to happen. "

" 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. "

" I have no unhappy memories of my childhood. "

" 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. "

" 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 never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote. "

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

" I still believe that education is about provoking some kind of original, creative thought. "

" 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. "