Vivienne Westwood Quotes

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.
In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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.
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.
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I've always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn't sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I'm in a fortunate position.
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.
I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.
My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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