Quotes By Vivienne Westwood

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.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

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 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.

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

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

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.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.