Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood

Important, Everything, Fashion

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.
Vivienne Westwood

Nothing, Else, London

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
Vivienne Westwood

Effort, Knowing, Individual

I can't think without my glasses.
Vivienne Westwood

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Change, Philosophy

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
Vivienne Westwood

Change, Great, Live

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Eat, Bit

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Age, Great, Again

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.
Vivienne Westwood

Morning, Practice, Minutes

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Vivienne Westwood

Possible, Touch, Femininity

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
Vivienne Westwood

Stand, Feminist, Personally

There is so much that people take for granted.
Vivienne Westwood

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Around, Wanted, Off

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
Vivienne Westwood

Through, Possible, Ideas

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Science, Confusion

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood

Women, Men, Wish

I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Less, Fair

I think it's important to vote.
Vivienne Westwood

Important, Vote

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work.
Vivienne Westwood

Love, Work, Keep

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood

Rock, Person, Punk

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
Vivienne Westwood

Today, End, Hair

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.
Vivienne Westwood

Talent, Criticism, Satisfied

My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Vivienne Westwood

Popular, Clothes, Japan

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood

Sex, Fashion, Son

Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
Vivienne Westwood

Change, Earth, Run

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Nationality: English

Born: April 8, 1941

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