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
artist rocks firsts
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
art air people
I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
children good-person bigs
I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
fashion rip safety-pins
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
design moments
I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
strong children character
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 gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.
thinking clothes people
I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work
real progress genius
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.
people granted
There is so much that people take for granted.
fashion thinking people
Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people
real squares three
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
rip people rotten
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.
writing people environmental
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
people understanding world
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.