Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

The most erotic zone is the imagination.

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

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

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.

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

I 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?

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

Well, I'm very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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.

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.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

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.

Women 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.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.

My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

I can't think without my glasses.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

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.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.

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.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

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

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.