Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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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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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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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
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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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Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
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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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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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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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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
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My clothes are very popular in Japan.
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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.