Vivienne Westwood Quotes
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I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!
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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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In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.
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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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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
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My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.
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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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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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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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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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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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And it's absolutely great, when everything comes together with the hair, the dresses and the makeup and the models and the music and the presentation. I can't get over these girls. They look wonderful. But by the time we finish with them, they look like they came from another planet. And I just think it's great.
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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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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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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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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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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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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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I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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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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Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
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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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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.