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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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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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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.
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At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
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If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.
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I've got a terrible memory it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
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The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs they're not tacky they are very professional the design is made from lots of decisions.
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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 just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
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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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If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
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I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.
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I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
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I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.
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Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.
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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.
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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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