Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vivienne Westwood

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

Vivienne Westwood

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

Vivienne Westwood

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

Vivienne Westwood

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Vivienne Westwood

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.

Vivienne Westwood

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.

Vivienne Westwood

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.

Vivienne Westwood

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

Vivienne Westwood

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.

Vivienne Westwood

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'

Vivienne Westwood

The sexiest people are thinkers.

Vivienne Westwood

The best fashion accessory is a book.

Vivienne Westwood

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

Vivienne Westwood

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

Vivienne Westwood

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.

Vivienne Westwood

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

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

Vivienne Westwood

The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.

Vivienne Westwood

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Vivienne Westwood

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.

Vivienne Westwood

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

Vivienne Westwood

Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.

Vivienne Westwood

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

Walter de La Mare

Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

Walter Benjamin

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

Virginia Woolf

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

Wallis Simpson

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Wallis Simpson

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

Samuel Smiles

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.

Salman Khan

All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

Salman Rushdie

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

Salman Rushdie

We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.