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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

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
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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Labour
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Conservative

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I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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There is so much that people take for granted.
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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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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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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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Art should never be sociological it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
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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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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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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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Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
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Everybody should have a fair deal everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.
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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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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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I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
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