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" I read up a lot about ceramics and collect them, but when you make something, it's very difficult to like it. I quite like appreciating and supporting what someone else does. "

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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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" 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. "

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

" I always love to look at something that I couldn't make, because I feel it's enlightening. It means you are not invincible: you can respect something and look up to it and go, 'Wow!' It's a skill that I don't have, but I can understand the merit of it. "

" We put something on Instagram, and it gets reposted, and it's everywhere, and a minute later it's gone, over. I don't see that as a negative thing; it's the way my mind works, too. "

" The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out. "

" 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. "

" I think, in history, everything is about the remix. "

" I would say I work very emotionally: I have a very compulsive way of working, where I love something to the moment I am sick of it. I have no addiction outside of work, so my addiction is that process. "

" For me, the creative process is this giant patchwork of information. "

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" Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability. "

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

" I think ceramics are so amazing because they're incredibly educational - you can buy something made in the 14th century, and it looks like it was made yesterday. There's something to be learned there, and ceramics can tell you the history of the time because they're functional vessels, ultimately. "

" No one reads anything. They just look at images. "

" To be able to make furniture has always been a fantasy of mine. "

" I'm not the best at getting myself breakfast, but if I do, I'll normally have toast and marmalade. "

" I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards. "

" I try to live my life free of regrets, but I do have one style regret that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Mum used to dress my brother and me in bright neon bike pants and big baggy t-shirts that were so long you could barely see our bike pants. "

" 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. "

" The first thing I do in the morning is have an espresso - straight up - and read the papers. I like 'The Independent,' 'The Times,' and the 'Financial Times.' "

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" Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm. "

" I love collecting things from auction - we Brits really are hoarders and collectors. "

" Part of the reason Loewe has diversified into so many other categories is because what we can't do any more is simply say, 'Here's more stuff you can buy.' "

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" What's so important with fashion imagery and with imagery in general is that it ultimately evokes an emotion. "

" I love the immediacy of Instagram. My feed really is my train of thought. If I'm really excited about something, I'll just put it up. "

" For me, doing an interview with someone is like having therapy. "

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" Loewe should be a cultural brand. "

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

" 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. "