Louise Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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 never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.
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Youth re-energises.
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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've always loved books.
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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 can't imagine taking up running.
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I always hate it when fashion is trivialised.
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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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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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I don't see why you wouldn't cry when you're in an intense environment.
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I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.
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Fashion's transient - it moves.
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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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My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
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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 was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.
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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.
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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.