Vivienne Westwood Quotes (152 quotes)

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„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.“
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„I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. 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.“
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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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„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 hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.“
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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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„Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.“
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„The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.“
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„I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.“
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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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„The last people with any ideas are young people.“
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„Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.“
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„Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.“
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„If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.“
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„I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.“
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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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„I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.“
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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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„I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.“
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„I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.“

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Vivienne Westwood
Author born: April 08, 1941
Nationality: English
Author Profession: Designer

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