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
children kids suffering
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
birthday people age
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
beautiful people quality
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!
fashion thinking people
I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
ideas intellectual world
The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
people needs earth
Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.
thinking people buying
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. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.
loved-ones rainforest
Save the rainforest for your loved ones
morning yoga practice
In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
fashion fit bigs
If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
feminist puritan i-can
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
fashion mcdonalds salad
Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.
art vision world
Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.
mean home bed
Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.