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From Quotes by Vivienne Westwood
- Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's…
- Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all…
- How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from…
- I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too…
- If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
- Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful…
- 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…
- I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my…
- I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me…
- 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…
- My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I…
- The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich…
- The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the…
- 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…
- We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.
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