Vivienne Westwood Quotes

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn't try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

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.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that's rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

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

There is so much that people take for granted.

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

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

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Save the rainforest for your loved ones

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

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.

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.

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.

Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!

If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy—nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.

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

There's always a polemic in my clothes.

Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

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

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

Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.

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.

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.

I think it's important to vote.

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?

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

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

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

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

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

It's better to look important than sexy.

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

I can't think without my glasses.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

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.

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.