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 design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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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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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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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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Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
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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 may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.
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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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There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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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 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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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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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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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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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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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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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in 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 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 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.