I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
Vivienne WestwoodWomen fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.
Vivienne WestwoodThe capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.
Vivienne WestwoodI 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?
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