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Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
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The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
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If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
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I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
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I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
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The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.
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I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
Vivienne Westwood