Quote

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

Vivienne Westwood

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Littles
Technique
Able
Access
Ever
Telling
Little
Build
Without
Direct
Thing
Wants
Shop
Always
Public
Shops
People
Since
Marketing

More quotes by Vivienne Westwood

Image
I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!
Vivienne Westwood
Image
I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man there's so much pressure on you.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
The sexiest people are thinkers.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne Westwood
Image
I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
Vivienne Westwood