Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

The French have got taste.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

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

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

I am in my own head most of the time.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

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.

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

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.

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.