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Louise Wilson

Company Director

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Louise Wilson is a company director, best known for Renaissance paratexts.

Quick Facts About Louise Wilson

Profession: Company Director
Notable works: Renaissance paratexts

About Louise Wilson

Louise Janet Wilson was a British professor of fashion design. Wilson was based at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London, where she was the course director of their MA in Fashion from 1992 until 2014. Her former students include Alexander McQueen, Jonathan Saunders, Christopher Kane, Peter Jensen, Richard Nicoll, and Sophia Kokosalaki.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by 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…

Crave

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

Believe

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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.

Always

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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…

Able

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

Destroyed

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

Alone

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I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable.

Become

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

Dress

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I always hate it when fashion is trivialised.

Always

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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…

Always believe

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I absolutely loathe and hate the work... But I love youth. I realise how lucky it is being with youth, and what…

Fats

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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.

Day

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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…

Boring

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It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising…

Cases

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Youth re-energises.

Youth

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Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice…

Fashion

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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…

Again

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I wear black because I'm a large lady, and I have many exact replicas of the same black outfit.

Black

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As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.

Might

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There's lots of bad things about teaching, but the really good thing is that you get to be around young people -…

Bad

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I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister…

Apples

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When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want…

Eye

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I can't imagine taking up running.

Imagine

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I was very successful at three-day events, point-to-points, Pony Club, and gymkhana. But then I went to college, and because I had…

Club

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Fashion is an incredibly tough, unforgiving industry.

Fashion

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Louise Wilson by topic

Fashion (21) Students (10) People (9) Thinking (8)