LOUISE WILSON

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'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.

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

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

Fashion's transient - it moves.

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

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

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

Youth re-energises.

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

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.

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

I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.

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.

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

I love to-do lists.

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

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

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

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 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.

Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.

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