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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
Outsider
Outsiders
Rebel
May

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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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Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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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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A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.
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Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
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Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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I can't think without my glasses.
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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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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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It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
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I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
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I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
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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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What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
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I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!
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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’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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I like to literally put women on a pedestal
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The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs they're not tacky they are very professional the design is made from lots of decisions.
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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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