Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

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.

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.

We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.

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

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

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.

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

I think it's important to vote.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

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

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

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

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

I can't think without my glasses.

The French have got taste.

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.

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.