Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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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.
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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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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
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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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Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
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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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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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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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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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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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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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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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My clothes are very popular in Japan.
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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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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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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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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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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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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 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.