Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Esme Young

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Esme Young is an English fashion designer and television presenter. Since 2016, she has been a judge on the BBC reality series The Great British Sewing Bee.

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The first things I made were absolute pig's ears. I didn't understand about facings, or finishings, or anything.

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If you read fashion magazines, and you couldn't afford something, or you were living outside London, you had to make it yourself.

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I had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing and went to boarding school when I was five.

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I love how the sewers express their vision. They all have their own personalities, and that's what they bring to the room.

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When I was 21, I left college and set up business Swanky Modes with three friends in Camden, North London. We were four women who did not know much about business, so we learnt as we went along.

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Different types of knitwear stretch in different ways, and if it's hand-knitted then it can come undone.

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Young designers will often look at things in a different way, and when I was first designing, that's exactly how I felt. People would say, 'That is wrong,' but 'That' was how I wanted it.

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