Educator

Youth re-energises.

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

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

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

Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.

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

I always hate it when fashion is trivialised.

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

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

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

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.

I love to-do lists.

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

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 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.

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

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

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?

I've always loved books.

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