Educator

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

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

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

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

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

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

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

I love hard work, energy, feeling involved.

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

I can't imagine taking up running.

Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of.

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

Fashion's transient - it moves.

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

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

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

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.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

I'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.

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