Vivienne Westwood
The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.Collection: Fashion
My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.Collection: Character
I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different wayCollection: Trying
The best fashion accessory is a book.Collection: Fashion
The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.Collection: Fighting
Buy less, choose well: that's the maxim. Quality not quantity. That's the most environmentally friendly thing you can do.Collection: Quality Not Quantity
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.Collection: Imagination
Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!Collection: Do It Yourself
The most erotic zone is the imagination.Collection: Imagination
I’m not terribly interested in beauty. What touches me is someone who understands herself.Collection: Touch Me
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.Collection: Art
It's better to look important than sexy.Collection: Sexy
I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.Collection: Teenager
My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.Collection: Fashion
I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Fashion
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.Collection: Clothes
I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.Collection: Thinking
The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.Collection: Migrants
I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.Collection: Art
Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system.Collection: People
When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.Collection: Years
There are many war refugees and three times as many climate refugees. All of them are people who can no longer live where they were born. I hope we face reality in time to save ourselves. We will all be migrants soon.Collection: War
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.Collection: Book
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!Collection: Men
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Ideas
Save the rainforest for your loved onesCollection: Loved Ones
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.Collection: Sea
Buy less, choose well, make it last. Quality rather than quantity: That is true sustainability. If people only bought beautiful things rather than rubbish, we wouldn't have climate change!Collection: Beautiful
There's always a polemic in my clothes.Collection: Clothes
I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art worldCollection: Girl
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. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.Collection: Fashion
Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".Collection: Thinking
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.Collection: Ideas
A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important.Collection: Stupid
Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.Collection: High Heels
I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!Collection: Horse
I like to literally put women on a pedestalCollection: Shoes
I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.Collection: Rebel
The sexiest people are thinkers.Collection: Fashion
Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.Collection: Fashion
Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose wellCollection: Thinking
I do have reasons for what I do. I am a very political person, and I really think if you put these clothes on, you will look like a force to be reckoned with.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
The young need discipline and a full bookcase.Collection: Discipline
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.Collection: Real
It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.Collection: Mistake