Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

23 quotes

Vivienne Westwood, a British fashion designer, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. The range of their thinking — from History to Change — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. 25 of Vivienne Westwood's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of History, Change, Money, Environmental, and Age. Among their most shared lines: "I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them."

“We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Change

All Quotes by Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Age

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Faith

“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

“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Beauty

“It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Change

“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

Success

“In history people dressed much better than we do today.”

— Vivienne Westwood

History

“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

Money

“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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Environmental

“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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Attitude

“Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Change

“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

Age

“We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Change

“In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.”

— Vivienne Westwood

Morning

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Experience

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Amazing

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Women

“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

History

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Family

“I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.”

— Vivienne Westwood

History