Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Hero, Position

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Vivienne Westwood

Age, Alone, Live

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
Vivienne Westwood

Human, Race, Athletic

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
Vivienne Westwood

Care, Remember, Suffering

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Impressive, Clothes

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood

Generation, Endless, Morons

At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Vivienne Westwood

Time, Angry, Feeling

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
Vivienne Westwood

Great, Attitude, Care

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne Westwood

Money, Financial, Reap

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
Vivienne Westwood

Able, Since, Public

Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.
Vivienne Westwood

Old, Started, Found

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.
Vivienne Westwood

Time, Word, Dictionary

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne Westwood

Young, Here, Show

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
Vivienne Westwood

End, Thought, Problem

I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Family, Good

I am in my own head most of the time.
Vivienne Westwood

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
Vivienne Westwood

Admire, Queen, Whom

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Career, Fashion

I disagree with everything I used to say.
Vivienne Westwood

Everything, Used, Disagree

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Money, Clothes, Afford

I don't follow politics much.
Vivienne Westwood

Politics, Follow

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
Vivienne Westwood

Faith, Time, Trying

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.
Vivienne Westwood

History, Culture, Left

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Beautiful, Simple, Speech

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
Vivienne Westwood

Voting, Against, Party

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Nationality: English

Born: April 8, 1941

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