Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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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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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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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 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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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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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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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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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 young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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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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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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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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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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However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
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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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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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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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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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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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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.
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The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.