Vivienne Westwood quotes

Vivienne Westwood was a renowned British fashion designer and businesswoman, credited with bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. Her provocative style and groundbreaking designs challenged conventions in the fashion world. She became an icon of rebellion and creativity, influencing generations of designers and artists. Here are 183 of her quotes:

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

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Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

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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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Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

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I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

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I disagree with everything I used to say.

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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

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My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

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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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All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

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There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

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I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

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I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

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It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.

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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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The last people with any ideas are young people.

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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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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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