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Vivienne Westwood
English
Designer
Born:
Apr 8
,
1941
Fashion
Me
People
Think
World
You
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The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood
People
Somebody
Vain
Rubbish
Latest
Sexiest
About
Head
Nobody
Talking
Just
Hole
Interested
Thing
Thinkers
You've got to invest in the world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
Vivienne Westwood
Love
Art
You
People
Genius
World
Amazing
Plants
Out
Find
About
Invest
Names
Know
Read
Got
Go
Amazing People
Human
Race
To Love
Galleries
Human Race
Whole
Start
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
Vivienne Westwood
Buy
Quality
Clothes
Too
Everybody
Well
Make
Quantity
Far
Choose
Less
Many
Last
Buying
I can't think without my glasses.
Vivienne Westwood
Glasses
Think
Without
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Time
Myself
Fashion
World
Punk
Country
Stupid
Ambition
Live
Consider
Considered
Way
London
Understand
Got
Came
Very
Just
Using
Express
Fashion Designer
Rebellious
Designer
Resistance
By The Time
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
Vivienne Westwood
Alone
You
Age
Generation
Discipline
Impossible
Young
Live
Out
Distraction
Find
More
Because
Non-Stop
Making
Curiosity
Anything
Which
Ever
Need
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
Hairstyle
Think
Projecting
Physical
Dress
Give
Features
Factors
Crucial
Attractive
Persona
Enhance
Chance
All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.
Vivienne Westwood
Generation
Rubbish
Hooked
Morons
Self-Expression
Endless
Just
Created
Appetite
If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.
Vivienne Westwood
Today
You
Hair
Anarchy
UK
Gives
Hear
End
Your
Stands
I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.
Vivienne Westwood
Think
Endangered
Endangered Species
Plan
Species
Save
I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
Vivienne Westwood
Punk
Hairstyle
Before
Purple
Had
Name
Got
Lipstick
There is so much that people take for granted.
Vivienne Westwood
People
Take For Granted
Take
Much
Granted
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
Vivienne Westwood
Fashion
Me
Reading
Books
Magazine
Read
Got
Thing
Last
Need
The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
Vivienne Westwood
Change
System
Out
Economic
Main
Economic System
Message
Climate
Climate Change
Caused
Get
Want
Rotten
Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.
Vivienne Westwood
Fashion
People
Think
Other
Generous
Lovely
Thing
I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.
Vivienne Westwood
People
Personality
Design
Hopefully
Help
Help People
Express
Things
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood
Fashion
Worth
Important
Everything
Pleasure
Gives
Like
Well
Doing
Very
I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.
Vivienne Westwood
Faith
Time
People
Communicate
Young
Waste Time
More
Trying
Any
Young People
Them
Waste
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.
Vivienne Westwood
World
Possible
Unpopular
Only
Through
Ideas
Effect
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
Vivienne Westwood
Too Much
Thinking
Too
Consumers
Consuming
Nobody
Stuff
Been
Up
Trained
Conformist
Far
Much
Sucking
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
Vivienne Westwood
Punk
First
Hairstyle
Punk Rock
First-Person
Rock
Person
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
Me
Treat
Remember
Girl
My Life
Parents
Think
Heroic
About
Case
More
Could
Felt
Boy
Always
How
Moaning
Than
Child
Little
Little Girls
Playground
It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
Vivienne Westwood
Fashion
Rebellion
Safety
Punk
Slogans
Dirt
True
Hairstyles
Were
Pins
Itself
Iconic
Themselves
The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.
Vivienne Westwood
Life
Saying
Best
Experience
Complicated
My Life
Seen
Believe
Think
Once
Only
Could
Primordial
Mesmerizing
How
Theater
Again
Japanese
Even
Now
Ever
Watching
Night
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne Westwood
People
Minority
Nursery
Kind
Only
Small
Support
Artists
Arts
Which
Interested
Acted
Ever
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.
Vivienne Westwood
Environmental
People
Problem
Will
Thought
Writes
Had
Always
How
Left
End
James
Urgent
Century
Realized
Billion
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