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
clothes design promise
If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.
clothes numbers design
The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.
years design wish
I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time.
design moments
I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
people design personality
I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
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.