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

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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? "

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

" I can't imagine taking up running. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of. "

" We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push. "

" I love to-do lists. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth. "

" Fashion's transient - it moves. "

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

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

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

" I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works. "

" 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'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion. "

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