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I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
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Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
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I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
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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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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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If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
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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 didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
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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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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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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's better to look important than sexy.
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There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.
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I can't think without my glasses.
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My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
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Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.
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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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