Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

I think I've got wiser.

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

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

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

I don't follow politics much.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

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.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

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

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

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.

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 was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I think it's important to vote.

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.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

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.

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.

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.

The French have got taste.

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

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.