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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Fashion Designer
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Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
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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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The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
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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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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
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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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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
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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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I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.
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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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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.
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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 have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
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Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
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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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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
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The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
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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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