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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

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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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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I can't think without my glasses.
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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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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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I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
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Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.
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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
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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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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
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I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
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If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.
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