Vivienne Westwood

there's always a polemic in my clothes.

— Vivienne Westwood

I don't follow politics much.

— Vivienne Westwood

The sexiest people are thinkers.

— Vivienne Westwood

My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.

— Vivienne Westwood

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

— Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

— Vivienne Westwood

The French have got taste.

— Vivienne Westwood

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

— Vivienne Westwood

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

— Vivienne Westwood

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and…

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic…

— Vivienne Westwood

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the…

— Vivienne Westwood

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like…

— Vivienne Westwood

Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is…

— Vivienne Westwood

The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy…

— Vivienne Westwood

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could…

— Vivienne Westwood

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We…

— Vivienne Westwood

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad…

— Vivienne Westwood

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes…

— Vivienne Westwood

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way…

— Vivienne Westwood

I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler…

— Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to…

— Vivienne Westwood

The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect…

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

There is so much that people take for granted.

— Vivienne Westwood

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

— Vivienne Westwood