Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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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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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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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion. Vivienne Westwood
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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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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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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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I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'
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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 didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
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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 just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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I can't think without my glasses.
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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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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Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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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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In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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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 only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
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I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.