Vivienne Westwood Quotes - Page 3

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• Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

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  Beautiful, People, Quality

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• 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 resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

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  Country, Fashion, Stupid

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

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  Women, Artist, Thinking

  "Talking dirty". www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2001.

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• 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.

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  Real, Progress, Genius

  "Westwood ho!" by Alix Sharkey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2001.

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• Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

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  Sake, Buying, Six

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

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  Always Trying, Lasts, Wells

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• I really don't like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they're horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They'd better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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  Men, Thinking, Vision

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• I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

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  Girl, Art, Class

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• We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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  People, Understanding, Way

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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

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  Advertising, Bans, Has Beens

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• Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

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  Home, Fighting, Men

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• Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

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  Should Have, Suffering, World

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• The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

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  Rip, People, Revolution

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• I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

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  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• 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.

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  Views, Tree, Woods

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• I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.

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  Fashion, Book, Reading

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• Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.

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  Ideas, People, Needs

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• I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

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  War, Looks, World

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

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  Children, Kids, Suffering

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• 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 to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

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  Real, Hype, People

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• A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.

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  Stupid, People, Important

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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

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  Fashion, Looks, Magazines

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• I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

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  War, Ideas, People

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• When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.

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  Years, People, Looks

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• When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

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  Together, Rebel, Looks

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