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It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
Businessperson
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Fashion Designer
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Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
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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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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 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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It's better to look important than sexy.
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I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.
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The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
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I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
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The most erotic zone is the imagination.
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I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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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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Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.
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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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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 was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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