The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

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.

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

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!'