Top 160 Vivienne Westwood Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.”

— Vivienne Westwood

52. “Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.”

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

54. “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

55. “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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

56. “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

57. “I’m frugal. I’m not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.”

— Vivienne Westwood

58. “I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.”

— Vivienne Westwood

59. “If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.”

— Vivienne Westwood

60. “If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.”

— Vivienne Westwood

61. “I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do.”

— Vivienne Westwood

62. “In history people dressed much better than we do today.”

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

64. “Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.”

— Vivienne Westwood

65. “But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I’ve been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.”

— Vivienne Westwood

66. “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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

67. “Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.”

— Vivienne Westwood

68. “I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.”

— Vivienne Westwood

69. “The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody’s interested in somebody who’s just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing – there is no latest thing. It’s all rubbish.”

— Vivienne Westwood

70. “Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.”

— Vivienne Westwood

71. “Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.”

— Vivienne Westwood

72. “It’s true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves – motifs of rebellion.”

— Vivienne Westwood

73. “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

74. “A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.”

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

76. “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

77. “If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.”

— Vivienne Westwood

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

— Vivienne Westwood

79. “The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.”

— Vivienne Westwood

80. “If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.”

— Vivienne Westwood

81. “The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.”

— Vivienne Westwood

82. “Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.”

— Vivienne Westwood

83. “If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge – if you choose well.”

— Vivienne Westwood

84. “I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much.”

— Vivienne Westwood

85. “If you ask me what I think people should be getting next season, I’ll tell you what I’d like them to buy – nothing. I’d like people to stop buying and buying and buying.”

— Vivienne Westwood

86. “Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.”

— Vivienne Westwood

87. “I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn’t tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming.”

— Vivienne Westwood

88. “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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

89. “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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

90. “I like to literally put women on a pedestal.”

— Vivienne Westwood

91. “It’s better to look important than sexy.”

— Vivienne Westwood

92. “I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.”

— Vivienne Westwood

93. “I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.”

— Vivienne Westwood

94. “Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don’t keep buying just for the sake of it.”

— Vivienne Westwood

95. “I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.”

— Vivienne Westwood

96. “Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.”

— Vivienne Westwood

97. “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.”

— Vivienne Westwood

98. “When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy.”

— Vivienne Westwood

99. “I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn’t realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.”

— Vivienne Westwood

100. “Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.”

— Vivienne Westwood