Louise Wilson Quotes
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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.
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What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.
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Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.
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I wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.
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Youth re-energises.
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I've always loved books.
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I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.
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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.
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I can't imagine taking up running.
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I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.
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I always hate it when fashion is trivialised.
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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.
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I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.
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At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.
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I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.
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Fashion's transient - it moves.
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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.
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I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.
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I always say to students, 'You're never going to have all the skills, but you have to have a skill.'
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The only thing with press attention is that it can be very draining on our energy store.
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I've always spent money on books. I've always enjoyed handling books - the size, the format. I feel very strongly about original ephemera.
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I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.
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My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
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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.