307 Quotes by Vivienne Westwood

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

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.

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.

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

I don’t think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized – it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

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.

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 well.

I used to always fight for human rights. I still fight for Leonard Peltier, who’s spent 35 years in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

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