Louise Wilson Quotes
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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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What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.
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I always thought I was going to be a professional horse rider because I rode horses competitively from zero to 17 years old.
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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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I love Ikea: it's non-design, but it works.
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In fashion, you're privileged because you're consistently working with a vanguard of youth.
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Youth re-energises.
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I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.
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I never really liked Italy. 'Lots of cement' is my long-standing quote.
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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've always loved books.
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I always hate it when fashion is trivialised.
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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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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.
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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.
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I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.
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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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Fashion's transient - it moves.
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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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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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My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
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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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At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.