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Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RDI (née Swire; born 8 April 1941) is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. She is an example of a modern-day female impresario.

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If we didn't have the Chinese buying things, we'd be on the floor.

Buying, Buying Things, Chinese, Floor, Things

There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

Idea, Ideas, People, Things, Think, Thinking

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

Awful, Going Out, Name, Names, Needs, Product

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Clothes, Decisions, Design, Different, Number, Numbers

The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

Crisis, Migrants, Mounting, Temporary

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

Century, Creativity, Inspiration, Mistake

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

Clothes, Dynamic, Glamorous, Looks, Strong, Woman

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

Big, Bigs, Fashion, Fit

I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.

Conserve, Save, Tasks, Thinking, Tread, Trying

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.

Perhaps, Philosophy, Practice, World

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.

Imagine, Natural, People, Sea, Ship, Suffering

We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

Herd, Most Amazing, Produced, Stupid, World

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Tree, Trees, Views, Way, Woman, Woods

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

Back, Chinese, Come, Horse, Like

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

Art, Class, Girl, Know, Make

The best fashion accessory is a book.

Accessories, Accessory, Book, Fashion

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.

Effect, Effects, Ideas, Possible, World

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

Artist, Clothes, Influence, Keep, Minimalism, Thinking

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

Girl, Littles, Nobody, Used

Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.

Beauty, Heels, High Heels, Pedestal, Shoes

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