Vivienne Westwood Quotes

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It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

Vivienne Westwood
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Vivienne Westwood
You can say everything you want to say through tailoring – I believe that everything resides in technique. You can't teach creativity and it is from technique that one is able to be creative. This is the terrible mistake of this century – to put creativity first.

Vivienne Westwood
The English aristocracy is now only the middle class with knobs on.

Vivienne Westwood
The catwalk is theatre. It's about provocation and outrage.

Vivienne Westwood
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.

Vivienne Westwood
Get rid of those terrible jeans that everybody else wears. And wear something different for a change, so you don't just look like a clone.

Vivienne Westwood
The last people with any ideas are young people. 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
How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.

Vivienne Westwood
What is sex after all? It's self-expression.

Vivienne Westwood
The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.

Vivienne Westwood
It is elegance that is potent and subversive. Elegance in a world of vulgarity.

Vivienne Westwood