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

- Louise Wilson

Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's n…

- Louise Wilson

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy i…

- Louise Wilson

I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almo…

- Louise Wilson

I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister who has no design training, put on some …

- Louise Wilson

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 yo…

- Louise Wilson

Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die, like the bankin…

- Louise Wilson

Of course, there's some you think, well I wouldn't let them in the door, but there's not many. It's very important to know that it's a mutual thing, …

- Louise Wilson

You can't subvert knowledge until you have knowledge... At the same time, I respect a student coming at it from a totally different position and tryi…

- Louise Wilson