Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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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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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.
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Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".
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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 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
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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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The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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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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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.
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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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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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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.