Top 100 Westwood Quotes
#1. I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
Alice Temperley
#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 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
#4. I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you.
Beth Ditto
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.
Charli XCX
#8. If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.
Vivienne Westwood
#9. Would an evil man show this much concern for me when I'm upset? Stand up for me? Rescue me in the middle of a concert? That's who you are now. Not the man who almost killed Colin Westwood. But one who's sorry for what he did and wants to move on with his life.
Jessica Lauryn
#10. The sign at the door was written with a backward R, to make it look Russian, which caused a minor echo of panic. Was it a reference to Merchenko? No, surely Westwood knew the difference between Russia and Ukraine. But were there Ukrainian-themed bars, for a pedantic tormentor?
Lee Child
#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. I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.
Tom Waits
#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. The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.
Hugh Hefner
#19. I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.
Richard Rodriguez
#21. I'm not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
Vivienne Westwood
#22. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#23. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#24. The Singapore Open is the flagship event of the Asian Tour, it is a massive event and it is being played in a great place. I love coming here and it is good to be back.
Lee Westwood
#25. I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.
Vivienne Westwood
#26. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#27. The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.
Lee Westwood
#28. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#29. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#30. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#31. I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
Vivienne Westwood
#33. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#36. People always say golfers don't smile. But there is so much psychology in golf so we have to be a bit robotic.
Lee Westwood
#37. Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people
Vivienne Westwood
#38. People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
Lee Westwood
#40. Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
Lee Westwood
#41. I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
Vivienne Westwood
#42. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#43. In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.
Lee Westwood
#44. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#45. It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
Lee Westwood
#47. I've said before that the Ryder Cup is not the European Tour versus the American Tour. It's Europe's best golfers against the US.
Lee Westwood
#48. I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.
Vivienne Westwood
#49. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#50. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#51. You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
Vivienne Westwood
#52. I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
Vivienne Westwood
#53. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#54. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#55. My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.'
Lee Westwood
#56. People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
Lee Westwood
#57. Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
Vivienne Westwood
#59. I'd been told there are 10 difficult holes and eight impossible ones. I'm still trying to work out which the 10 difficult holes are.
Lee Westwood
#61. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#62. A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to ... no matter how many times you have been there before.
Lee Westwood
#64. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#65. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#66. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#68. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#70. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#72. Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.
Vivienne Westwood
#75. 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!'
Vivienne Westwood
#76. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#77. The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne Westwood
#78. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#79. My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
Vivienne Westwood
#80. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#81. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#83. Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
Vivienne Westwood
#84. Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
Vivienne Westwood
#85. The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne Westwood
#86. All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood
#87. I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.
Vivienne Westwood
#88. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#89. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#90. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#91. When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
Vivienne Westwood
#92. Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Vivienne Westwood
#93. The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
Vivienne Westwood
#94. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#95. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#96. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#97. Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.
Lee Westwood
#98. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
#99. 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.
Vivienne Westwood
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