Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Louise Wilson

Perfect

Drawing

Not Perfect

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

" In 'Who's Who,' my hobbies are listed as eating, sleeping, and voicing one's opinion. Not necessarily the right opinion, but it's mine. "

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

Louise Wilson

Corny

Fashion

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

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

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

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

" I've always loved books. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We had six horses, and I would compete. Jumping. Cabinets full of cups. I always won. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

" I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment. "

" I can't imagine taking up running. "

Louise Wilson

Running

Taking

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

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

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