“Many students don't really like it (fashion). If they don't like it, they won't be able to tell you who the stylists are or the photographers. If they say they can't remember the names but they recognize the work, I'll say that's bullshit because if you were selling mobile phones, you'd know all about the phones' features and tariffs.” IfsKnowsAbleRememberNamesFashionStudentsPhotographerPhonesSellingFeaturesBullshitMobileStylistMobile PhonesTariffs Author: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 almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.” ThinkingYearsWellsProblemTodayFashionDestroyedMagazinesEmbarrassingFashionableParody Author: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 not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.” ThinkingTodayWaitingFashionPeriodsFameReactionsPunkCrave Author:Louise Wilson
“It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentFactsReadingLanguageDecisionLevelsSecretKnownCasesFashionMessagesConsciousDifferent WaysRejectsRealisingDifferent PeoplesRejectingSubliminalSubliminal Messages Author:Louise Wilson
“It falls apart now. They used to be intrinsically linked. Now they've been driven so far apart that I don't think the one has anything to do with the other. Even more so: I think that there is almost a reaction against style, that brute ugliness somehow has been interpreted as being the way to go.” ThinkingWayHas BeensUsedFallFashionStyleDrivenReactionsUsed To BeLinkedFalling ApartUglinessBrutes Author:Louise Wilson
“Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?” ShouldLongHoursFashionSkillsStoppingLong Hours Author:Louise Wilson
“I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'” DoneShowsAsksFashionStudentsToms Author: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 it.” PeopleKnowsNeedsShouldBelieveFashionDisagreeNewness Author:Louise Wilson
“Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.” IfsThinkingWorldWayFeelsShouldMayBookDoneJobsYoungProcessViewsFashionHavensStudentsPersonalityCriticismPoint Of ViewBrandsMeant To BeHarshObscureMonkNo PointThought ProcessInforming Author:Louise Wilson
“When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want to know.” PeopleKnowsWantFirstsMightEyeFashion Author:Louise Wilson
