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

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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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do. "

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" 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. "

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

" I've always loved books. "

" Youth re-energises. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I always hate it when fashion is trivialised. "

" I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven. "

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

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

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

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

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