Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
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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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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
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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.
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Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
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I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
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If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.
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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
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When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
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But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
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My clothes are very popular in Japan.
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I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.