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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

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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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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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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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
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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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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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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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I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
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I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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