Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

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.

I think it's important to vote.

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

The last people with any ideas are young people.

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

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

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

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

I can't think without my glasses.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

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

The French have got taste.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

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.

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.

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.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

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.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

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

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.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.