Top 100 Vivienne Quotes
#1. I can be patient, Vivienne, and I believe you're worth waiting for.
Samantha Chase
#2. I love Vivienne Westwood. So much. Every time I go to London, first thing I do is go in there. It's ridiculous!
Gwen Stefani
#3. I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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#4. I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there.
Kate O'Mara
#6. I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.
Beth Ditto
#7. There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.
Cyndi Lauper
#8. Vivienne Westwood, The Sex Pistols, Seven Stars, coffee with milk and strawberry cake. And Ren flowers.
Nana's favorite things never change.
It was so cool for someone like me who keeps on changing their mind.
Ai Yazawa
#9. Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.
Charli XCX
#10. I will wait for you, Vivienne. I don't care how many centuries it takes before you're ready, but I will wait for you.
Bella Forrest
#11. I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood ... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
Natalie Dormer
#12. Vivienne Westwood makes such beautifully structured clothes that are especially flattering if you are curvy.
Antonia Thomas
#13. I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.
Nina Conti
#14. I love lots of designers. I will always love Vivienne Westwood; she is a legendary designer.
Eliza Doolittle
#15. I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.
Katie McGrath
#16. Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible.
Lily Cole
#17. I'd love to have a fashion range; I've been dressed by the amazing Vivienne Westwood, and fashion is something I'm a huge fan of.
Jessie J.
#18. I'm not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
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#19. My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.
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#20. The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
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#21. What you DO is quite separate from who you ARE. Please
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#22. I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
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#23. The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.
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#24. I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.
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#25. I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager ... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
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#26. I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.
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#27. I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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#29. I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
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#32. Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people
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#36. I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.
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#40. I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
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#41. Her knees trembled. She told herself the weakness was from hunger - for food, not Ramsay's body. "Is
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
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#45. I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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#51. I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
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#53. 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.
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#54. I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It's more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
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#55. My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.
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#57. The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
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#59. 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.
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#61. Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.
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#64. There's this idea that somehow you've got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they'd get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
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#65. The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
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#66. 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.
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#67. My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
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#68. The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.
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#69. But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
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#70. Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
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#71. Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
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#72. The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
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#73. All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
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#74. I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
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#75. 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.
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#76. It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
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#77. Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.
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#78. When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
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#79. Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
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#80. The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
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#81. 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.
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#82. 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.
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#83. If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I'll tell you what I'd like them to buy - nothing. I'd like people to stop buying and buying and buying.
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#84. Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
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#85. I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.
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#87. 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.
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#88. It's just so impressive to see how the women have used making Fair Trade clothes to escape poverty and empower themselves and their children. - Emma Watson
Safia Minney
#89. The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
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#90. Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
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#93. We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.
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#94. It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.
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#96. If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
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#97. I'm very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.
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#98. My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
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#99. I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
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#100. I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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