Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

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 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.

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

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.

I don't follow politics much.

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

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

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.

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.

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'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?

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'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.

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.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

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.

There is so much that people take for granted.

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.

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.