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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.

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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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
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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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I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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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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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.
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You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
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I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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