Louise Wilson

I have no unhappy memories of my childhood.

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.

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.

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

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.

At the end of the day, I'm a very boring academic, bogged down with academia and structure and delivering an education.

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.

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.

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.

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

I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!

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