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My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.

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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Forget
Flattering
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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've got a terrible memory it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
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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 may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.
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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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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
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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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The most erotic zone is the imagination.
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If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
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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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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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Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!
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The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
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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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Everybody should have a fair deal everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.
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If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
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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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Prince Charles is definitely my hero he uses his position to do only good in this world.
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I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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