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It's better to look important than sexy.

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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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
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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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We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
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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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I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.
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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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The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
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There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live where they were born. I hope we face reality in time to save ourselves. We will all be migrants soon.
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Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
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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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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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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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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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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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Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.
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