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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?

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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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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The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
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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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Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.
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Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
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I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
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I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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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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Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
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The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs they're not tacky they are very professional the design is made from lots of decisions.
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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
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