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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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I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
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I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
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At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
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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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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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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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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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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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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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A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.
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A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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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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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion. Vivienne Westwood
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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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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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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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Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
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I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
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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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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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