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My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.
Vivienne Westwood
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
Vivienne Westwood
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The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
Vivienne Westwood
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
Vivienne Westwood
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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.
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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
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It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
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I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way
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I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
Vivienne Westwood
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Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood
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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
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The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
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The most erotic zone is the imagination.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
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I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
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I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
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Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
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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.
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
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At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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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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Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well
Vivienne Westwood
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
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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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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!
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Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
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There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.
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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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My clothes are very popular in Japan.
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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.
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When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.
Vivienne Westwood
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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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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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The sexiest people are thinkers.
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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.
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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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