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.

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.

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.

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.

Students sometimes turn up at my course and they look a bit like they're going to Bali with only Wellingtons and a map, and they never leave their hotel room because they didn't think to bring a bikini. I'm full of bizarre analogies like that.

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

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.