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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
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
University Teacher
Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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I can't think without my glasses.
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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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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
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Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!
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I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.
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There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.
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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
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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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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
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I disagree with everything I used to say.
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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
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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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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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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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