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I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
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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've got a terrible memory it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
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I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
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You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
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What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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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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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.
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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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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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