Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RDIis a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth8 April 1941
birthday people age
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.
loved-ones rainforest
Save the rainforest for your loved ones
fashion fit bigs
If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
beautiful people quality
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!
feminist puritan i-can
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.
fashion thinking people
I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
sexy fashion giving
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.
sexy important looks
It's better to look important than sexy.
always-trying lasts consumers
What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.
ideas intellectual world
The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.
party voting conservative
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
ideas rocks forever
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.
memories terrible concentrating
I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.
fashion cutting thinking
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.