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Vivienne Westwood
English
Designer
About the author
Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Men
#Women
My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Fashion
#Son
#Sex
#Punk
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,
English
Designer
#Culture
#History
#Space
I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Queen
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#People
#Effort
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
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,
English
Designer
#Chance
#Dress
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,
English
Designer
#Being
#Youth
#Trying
#Energy
#Rebellion
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#First
#Punk
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,
English
Designer
#Time
#People
#Waiting
It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Man
#Femininity
My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Popular
#Clothes
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#People
#Support
#Artists
#Minority
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Race
The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Want
#Love
#London
#Shops
We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Right
#Beginning
We moved into the back, made it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the records.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Success
#Boys
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Idea
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Life
#Pleasure
#Worth
#Fashion
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,
English
Designer
#Old
#Clothes
#Formula
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,
English
Designer
#People
#Public
#Marketing
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,
English
Designer
#Necessity
#Money
#Financial
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#History
#Women
I think it's important to vote.
Vivienne Westwood,
English
Designer
#Vote
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,
English
Designer
#World
#Gold
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,
English
Designer
#Love
#People
#Work
#Influence
#Clothes