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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Fashion Designer
University Teacher
Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.
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I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
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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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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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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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Prince Charles is definitely my hero he uses his position to do only good in this world.
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I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.
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I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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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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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
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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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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?
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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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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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