Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
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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'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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I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
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Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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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 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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The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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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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There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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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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What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
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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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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
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Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.