Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
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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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But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
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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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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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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 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 disagree with everything I used to say.
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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.
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I can't think without my glasses.
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I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
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If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.
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It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
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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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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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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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In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.
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I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.
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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world