Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

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.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

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.

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.

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.

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 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.

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.

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

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?

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

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 don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

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

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.

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