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I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
Vivienne Westwood
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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Fashion Designer
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Tintwistle
Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
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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 tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
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I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man there's so much pressure on you.
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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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I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very 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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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
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I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
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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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My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
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I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
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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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If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.
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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 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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I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
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Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
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