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.
Fashion's transient - it moves.
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 wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.
I had a fabulous childhood. Not many people have an outdoor tennis court that you're allowed to put your ponies on and pretend you're at Hickstead.
Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
I may sound like a corny bastard, but I love fashion.
I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.
In fashion, you're privileged because you're consistently working with a vanguard of youth.
As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.
I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'
I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.
What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.
There's a broad range of fashion: knitwear, textiles, journalism.
The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.
We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.
I'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.
Youth re-energises.
Without art, you don't have society. It underpins so much.
I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.
