Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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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 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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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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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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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 young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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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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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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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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However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
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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 wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.
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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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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
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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.