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
teenager boys care
I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.
girl children boys
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
success boys artist
We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.
Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
endangered
I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
time
I am in my own head most of the time.
against believe cool government hippies message movement people proud punk stand
The reason why I am proud of my part in the punk movement is that I think it really did implant a message that was already there. The hippies told it to me, but punk made it something cool for people to stand up for, which is that we do not believe government, that we are against government.
Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.
I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.
again anybody great notice unless
I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
art business kidnapped
Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business.
I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.
both dared heavy paid price shown
The bravery shown by Azza Suleiman who dared to stand up for another woman who was being beaten, and paid a heavy price in doing so, is both awe-inspiring and humbling.