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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.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
University Teacher
Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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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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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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Prince Charles is definitely my hero he uses his position to do only good in this world.
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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