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!'

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

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

There is so much that people take for granted.

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.