Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
Vivienne Westwood

Love, Work, Happy

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
Vivienne Westwood

Boring, Find, Fashion

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.
Vivienne Westwood

Off, Making, Getting

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?
Vivienne Westwood

Name, Needs, Awful

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.
Vivienne Westwood

Best, Give, Chance

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Vivienne Westwood

Women, History, Role

I think I've got wiser.
Vivienne Westwood

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who's spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
Vivienne Westwood

Fight, Human, Used

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Show, Fall

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
Vivienne Westwood

Before, Punk, Name

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Vivienne Westwood

Trying, Energy, Youth

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.
Vivienne Westwood

Person, Last, Alive

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Person, Big

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Designer

I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Bad, Fashion

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.
Vivienne Westwood

Away, Throw, Tradition

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.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Girl, Parents

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
Vivienne Westwood

Travel, Real, Happen

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.
Vivienne Westwood

Amazing, Another, She

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
Vivienne Westwood

Women, Woman, Person

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Victim, Clothes

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
Vivienne Westwood

Fashion, Big, Fit

In history people dressed much better than we do today.
Vivienne Westwood

History, Today, Dressed

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.
Vivienne Westwood

Understand, Cheap, Italy

It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
Vivienne Westwood

Time, Waiting, Long

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Nationality: English

Born: April 8, 1941

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