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
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If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.
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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.
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Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
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.
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I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
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I am in my own head most of the time.
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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.
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I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
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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.
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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.