Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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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 didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
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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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I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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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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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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It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
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In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
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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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What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
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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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I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
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Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!
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Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
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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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I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.
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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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I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.