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Vivienne Westwood

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.
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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
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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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Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
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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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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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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
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Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!
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If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
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A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.
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I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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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 like to literally put women on a pedestal
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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
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I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.
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The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
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