Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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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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If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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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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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
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I think it's important to vote.
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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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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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However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
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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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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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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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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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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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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
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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.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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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.
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.