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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.
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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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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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
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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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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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In history people dressed much better than we do today.
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I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.
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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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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 was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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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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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
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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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Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
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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'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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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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I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
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