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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.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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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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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial I could not believe it.
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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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It's better to look important than sexy.
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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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If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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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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If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
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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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I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
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I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
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I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.
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There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted what they really liked.
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I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.
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The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
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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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