Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
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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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There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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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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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 don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.
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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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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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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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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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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion. Vivienne Westwood
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
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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've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
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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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There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
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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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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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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.