Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

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.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

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.

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.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.