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Quotes from Vivienne Westwood


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I can't think without my glasses.


I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.


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.


Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.


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.


I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.


There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.


It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.


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.


Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.


It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.


In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.


There is so much that people take for granted.


I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.


I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.


The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.


I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.


When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.


You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.


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.