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 lines britain
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
art race names
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
fashion careers half
I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.
museums people trying
I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.
care dresses bags
I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.
clothes too-much feels
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 much.
beautiful kings simple
I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.
fashion book reading
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.
book kids arms
A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.
artist space culture
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
fashion thinking stones
Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.
imagination reason insight
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
artist color islands
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
self expression generations
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.