Vivienne Westwood Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
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.
I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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.
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Real art has been ... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
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.
It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
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?
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.
I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
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.
If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.