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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
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Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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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 have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
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I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.
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I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
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The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
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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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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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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
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