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I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

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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I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
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I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
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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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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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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 talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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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 was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.
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I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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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 was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
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My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.
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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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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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When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
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The most erotic zone is the imagination.
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Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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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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