Vivienne Westwood Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
The best fashion accessory is a book.
-
I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
-
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.
-
My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
-
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
-
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.
-
I disagree with everything I used to say.
-
I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
-
There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
-
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
-
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.
-
I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
-
The sexiest people are thinkers.
-
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
-
In history people dressed much better than we do today.
-
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.
-
My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
-
Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
-
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.