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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
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Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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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 didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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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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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
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I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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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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In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
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It's better to look important than sexy.
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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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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