Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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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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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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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.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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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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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 arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
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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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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion. Vivienne Westwood
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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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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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I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
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However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
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I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
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I think it's important to vote.
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Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. 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.
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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
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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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I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.
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Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
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I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.