Vivienne Westwood famous quotes

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

#Fashion #Knowing #People

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Friendly #Quality #Wells

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

#Clothes #Interesting #Impressive

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Teenager #Boys #Care

I like to literally put women on a pedestal
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Pedestal

Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Thinking #Clothes #People

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Design #Moments

I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Reading #Book #Men

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Rip #Safety

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Men #Clothes #People

I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Art #Air #People

I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Touch Me

The most erotic zone is the imagination.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Imagination #Zone

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Thinking #Artist

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Inspirational #Fashion #Giving

I can't think without my glasses.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Thinking #Glasses

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Clothes #Quality #Lasts

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Magazines #Looks

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Beauty #People #Today

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

#Running #Treasure #Earth

I disagree with everything I used to say.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Used #Disagree

Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Becoming #Naked

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Careers #Half

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Museums #People #Trying

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Personality #Dresses #Helping

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

#Women #Artist #Feminist

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.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Character #Clothes #Identity

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Thinking #Ideas #People

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Sex #Son

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#People #Understanding #World

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Philosophy #Practice #World

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

#Fashion #Thinking #People

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Discipline #Needs #Young

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Ideas #People #Needs

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

#High Heels #Shoes

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Six #Sake #Buying

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Years #People #Looks

I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Thinking #Clothes #Political

The best fashion accessory is a book.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Book #Accessories

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

#Trying #Way #Different

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Artist #Rocks #Firsts

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

#Travel #London

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

#Ideas #World

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Women #Men #Elegance

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

#Fashion #Clothes #Suits

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Looks

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

#Fashion #Clothes #People

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

#Thinking #Important #World

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.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Clothes #People #Littles

I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Years #Design #Trying

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

#Fashion #Jealous #People

In history people dressed much better than we do today.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#People #Today

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

#Queens #Saws #Would Be

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Book #People #Should

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.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Beautiful #Kings #Simple

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.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Fashion #Thinking #Punk

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Artist #Space #Culture

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.
-- Vivienne Westwood

#Girl #Littles #Used

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

#Clothes #Too Much #Feels