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I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

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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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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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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I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
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The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.
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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
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I disagree with everything I used to say.
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There is so much that people take for granted.
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People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
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In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
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My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
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The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
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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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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
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Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
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The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.
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