Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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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 like to literally put women on a pedestal
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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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I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
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I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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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.
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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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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 am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.
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I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
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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. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.
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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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The sexiest people are thinkers.
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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
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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.
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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.
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
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Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.