Quotes from Jonathan Anderson

I'm Irish, working for a Spanish brand, owned by a French company.

I find it difficult to go to museums. I prefer houses.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

As a child growing up in Ireland, you would have to go to Dublin if you wanted to go to the luxury brands. And I remember my mother being too uncomfortable to go into some of those stores. I want to get rid of the barrier.

For me, fashion should always be evolving so it remains exciting and unexpected.

I'm completely dyslexic - it's the writing part. People read what I've written, and they have no idea what I'm trying to say.

We need to articulate luxury differently. We live in the world of the 'like' culture. As a society, we're consuming so much imagery, it's like gorging on sugar, and the only way to find depth in a 'like' culture is by presenting the unknown.

Trend-wise, I hope to keep bringing completely new collections to the industry that will make people think and defy the norm.

For me, menswear is an experimental ground to play with something. There is scope to be gained there - you can create a new normality.

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

Everyone has something to learn from one another. When different disciplines meet, it creates this amazing unpredictability.

I love jeans, T-shirts, and things you can jazz up and down, a bit of a mish-mash.

Luxury stores are such a difficult thing because, ultimately, their purpose is to sell, but I do think you can get more out of a store.

When I was a kid, I remember the fear of going into big brand stores. You didn't want to go in because you felt like you couldn't afford anything.

Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're trying to create a new structure, a new proportion, a new shape, and you're using a material to cut which is a bit mathematical. That idea of finding something new in terms of proportion is something that drives me.

When I was younger, we went to Ibiza a lot because my parents bought an apartment there. I feel like that has always stuck with me.

The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist.

Ultimately, I think to be successful in fashion, you have to turn into the most incredible HR person. It's about politics. I'm massaging egos and keeping everyone happy.

I wasn't very good at school and appalling at English.

I just don't ever want it to be nice. I'd prefer someone had a violent reaction to my collection than ever call it 'nice.'

When I first came to Wakefield Cathedral, I thought, 'How does man conceive to build something like this?' It's a building that has transcended time over the centuries, and you appreciate the magnitude of humankind's power and vision. When you're inside, you feel as though the rest of the world doesn't exist.

Working with Uniqlo is probably the most incredible template of democracy in fashion, and it's nice that my design can be accessible to anyone, on all different levels.