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Art should never be sociological it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

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
Vision
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The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
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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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In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.
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Save the rainforest for your loved ones
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We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
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If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.
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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
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I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man there's so much pressure on you.
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I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
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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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The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.
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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
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I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
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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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Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.
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