“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.”
Change
“In history people dressed much better than we do today.”
HistoryAll Quotes by Vivienne Westwood
“I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.”
Family“If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.”
Amazing“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.”
Money“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.”
Success“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.”
Age“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.”
Environmental“I don't follow politics much.”
Politics“More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.”
Experience“In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.”
Morning“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.”
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.”
Change“In history people dressed much better than we do today.”
History“Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.”
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.”
History“I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.”
History“I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.”
Travel“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.”
Age“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.”
Environmental“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.”
Money