Best 171 quotes of Vivienne Westwood on MyQuotes

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

And it's absolutely great, when everything comes together with the hair, the dresses and the makeup and the models and the music and the presentation. I can't get over these girls. They look wonderful. But by the time we finish with them, they look like they came from another planet. And I just think it's great.

A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothesI mean, I know I’m lucky, I can just take things and borrow them and I’m just okay, but I hate having too many clothes. And I think that poor people should be even more careful. It doesn't mean therefore you have to just buy anything cheap. Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

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!

Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.

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.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

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.

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.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".

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

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.

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

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

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

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

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

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

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

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.

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

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.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

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

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

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.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

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

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

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.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

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