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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
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Designer
Fashion Designer
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Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
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I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
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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.
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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
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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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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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We are so conformist nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
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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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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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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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Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
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I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
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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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