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I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

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
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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.
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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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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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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
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Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
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I think it's important to vote.
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I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
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There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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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 don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
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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.
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The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
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My clothes are very popular in Japan.
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
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I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.
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When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
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