Vivienne Westwood Quotes

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

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.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.

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

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

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.

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.

I don't care how many beauty treatments you have, I don't care which bag you're carrying - you have to have a dress.

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.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.

I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'

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

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

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.

If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

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

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

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.

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.

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.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

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

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people