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The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

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
Conformity
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I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.
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The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
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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 don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
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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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I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.
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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 don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
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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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I can't think without my glasses.
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How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.
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I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.
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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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Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
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What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
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I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
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When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.
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The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
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