Educator

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had really good horses, they weren't going to be left in the field, so they were sold.

Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.

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 have no unhappy memories of my childhood.

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

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 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.

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

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.