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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.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
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My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
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I disagree with everything I used to say.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
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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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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
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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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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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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.
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We are so conformist nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
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I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
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We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality we seem to be the most stupid, also.
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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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If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.
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I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
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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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