Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

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.

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?

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

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

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

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

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.

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

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.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.

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

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.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

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.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.