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In history people dressed much better than we do today.

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
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.
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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial I could not believe it.
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There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live where they were born. I hope we face reality in time to save ourselves. We will all be migrants soon.
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I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
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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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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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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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And it's absolutely great, when everything comes together with the hair, the dresses and the makeup and the models and the music and the presentation. I can't get over these girls. They look wonderful. But by the time we finish with them, they look like they came from another planet. And I just think it's great.
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I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
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Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
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