Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RDIis a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth8 April 1941
men clothes people
In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!
clothes polemics
there's always a polemic in my clothes.
men thinking vision
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.
buying six sake
Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
travel london
There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
fashion book accessories
The best fashion accessory is a book.
running treasure earth
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
women elegance femininity
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
high-heels shoes womens-beauty
Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.
used disagree
I disagree with everything I used to say.
fashion sex son
My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
ideas world effects
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
thinking glasses i-can
I can't think without my glasses.
women artist feminist
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.