Quotes by Vivienne Westwood

About Vivienne Westwood:

Dame Vivienne Westwood is an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
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Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

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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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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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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

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If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

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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.

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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

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Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.

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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.

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I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside...

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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.

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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

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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.

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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...

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My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

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I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.

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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 h...

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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.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameVivienne Westwood
  • DescriptionEnglish fashion designer and businesswoman
  • AliasesVivienne Isabel Swire; Dame Vivienne Westwood
  • BornApril 8, 1941
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionDesigner
  • AwardsBritish Fashion Awards; Dame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire