Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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.
I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.
If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.
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.
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'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.
I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.
I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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