Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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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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The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
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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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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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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!
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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 do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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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 think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
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I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way
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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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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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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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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
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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 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 love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
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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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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.