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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.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
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How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
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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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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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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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