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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Fashion Designer
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Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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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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When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.
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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
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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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I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
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We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
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I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
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Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
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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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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
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The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
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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 just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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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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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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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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If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.
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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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