Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

The French have got taste.

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

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.

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.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

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

I am in my own head most of the time.

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

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.

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

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.

I don't follow politics much.

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

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.

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

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