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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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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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There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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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.
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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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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
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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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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 may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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The sexiest people are thinkers.
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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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I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.
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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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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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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
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Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!
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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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