Vivienne Westwood quotes - page 3

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. (Vivienne Westwood)

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

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I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.

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But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

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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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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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Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

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I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.

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Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

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I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen. (Vivienne Westwood)

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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We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

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My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

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When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

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The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

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However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

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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'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

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I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things. (Vivienne Westwood)

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

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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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There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

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I think it's important to vote.

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Vivienne Westwood

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Photo: Manfred Werner - Tsui, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: British Designer
Born: April 8, 1941
Died: December 29, 2022
Quotes count: 183
Wikipedia: Vivienne Westwood

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