Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

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

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.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

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.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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

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

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

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

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.

I don't follow politics much.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

I think I've got wiser.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.

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

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.

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.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

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.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

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.

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

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.