I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

— Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood Quotes

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

— Vivienne Westwood

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.

— Vivienne Westwood

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.

— Vivienne Westwood

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I’m delighted.

— Vivienne Westwood

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

— Vivienne Westwood

I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make – and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn’t quite work.

— Vivienne Westwood

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It’s got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

— Vivienne Westwood

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

Wear a towel instead of a coat, it’s very chic. Or your husband’s boxer shorts with a belt, or something from your grandmother. It’s all about do-it-yourself at the moment.

— Vivienne Westwood

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

— 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

There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet.

— Vivienne Westwood
Real

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

— Vivienne Westwood

Well, I’m very much a literary person. And my fashion always tells a story somehow. 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.

— Vivienne Westwood
Book Reading

In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

— Vivienne Westwood
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