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What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Fashion Designer
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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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The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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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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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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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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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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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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