307 Quotes by Vivienne Westwood

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.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

Save the rainforest for your loved ones

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

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.

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.

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.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

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.