Vivienne Westwood

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

— Vivienne Westwood

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

— Vivienne Westwood

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we…

— Vivienne Westwood

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the…

— Vivienne Westwood

If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing.…

— Vivienne Westwood

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a…

— Vivienne Westwood

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

— Vivienne Westwood

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a…

— Vivienne Westwood

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck…

— Vivienne Westwood

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to…

— Vivienne Westwood

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not…

— Vivienne Westwood

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business…

— 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…

— Vivienne Westwood

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human…

— Vivienne Westwood

There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live…

— Vivienne Westwood

There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with…

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

My aim is to make the poor look rich and the rich look poor.

— Vivienne Westwood