Vivienne Westwood Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.”

“When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.”

“We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.”

“I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.”

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

“In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.”

“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.”

“Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.”

“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.”

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