Vivienne Westwood Quotes

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!'

Vivienne Westwood

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• I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Men
  • Trying

• The most erotic zone is the imagination.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Imagination
  • Zone
  • Erotic

• It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion
  • Safety
  • Punk

• I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

  

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  • Real
  • Certain
  • Geometry

• The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Hippie
  • Motive
  • Rebellion

• The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • London
  • Britain
  • Shops

• I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fighting
  • Humans
  • Crime

• The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Economic
  • Climate
  • Messages

• There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Culture

• When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Parent
  • Hypocrisy

• Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion
  • Bits
  • Salad

• In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

  

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  • People
  • Men
  • Servant

• My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Strong
  • Helping
  • Conscious

• We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Gold
  • Stuck

• If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Design
  • Promise
  • Influential

• Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Quality

• Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Earth
  • Financial

• If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Planets
  • Saws
  • Queens

• The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

  

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  • Earth
  • Growth
  • Poor

• 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.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Design

• Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • People
  • Age
  • Birthday

• I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Simple
  • Easy
  • Cooking

• I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Memories
  • Terrible
  • Concentrating