The Celebrity Fashion Professor

Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Mary Katrantzou- they all have a commonality of not just being the famous players of fashion but also was taught by the same professor from Central Saint martin (CSM), Louise Wilson.

Louisa Wilson : Source: Telegraph

Few professors impact our lives with their support, advice, their 'Rock star' persona, their guidance or kindness. Today we pay a tribute to a celebrity professor who shot to fame because most of her students are Fashion celebrities and are employed successfully in the fashion industry. 

She came into the media limelight for this phenomenal factor of producing talented super designers into the world of fashion. Her contribution to teaching got recognised by an OBE award ceremony organised by her ex-students and staff from CSM in 2008. They also presented her with a book with a page from each of her famous alumni, also considered a trophy in itself.

Nilson (2010) has commented that effective motivational techniques and effective teaching techniques greatly overlap. Also, more motivated students want to learn more, so they achieve more. How Louise Wilson has motivated successful Fashion students can only be addressed by interviewing her students. But, among all other reasons of networking, and the backing of a university, the prime reason for a star student to have succeeded to excel in a profession that they had chosen to study in university remains evidence to the motivation given by the professor to the student to excel and achieve more as stated by Nilson (2010).