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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
Businessperson
Designer
Fashion Designer
University Teacher
Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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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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The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
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The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
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My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
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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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