Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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