Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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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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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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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'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 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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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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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 just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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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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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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Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.
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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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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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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
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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 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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I can't think without my glasses.
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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.
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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.