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Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

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
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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.
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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
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The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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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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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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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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It's better to look important than sexy.
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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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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
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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 own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
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I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
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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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My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.
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My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
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I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.
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If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
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Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
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