Vivienne Westwood
Quotations
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“Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“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…
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“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
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“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.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“I don’t follow politics much.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“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
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“In history people dressed much better than we do today.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“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
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“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.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.” -Vivienne Westwood
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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
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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
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