307 Quotes by Vivienne Westwood

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.

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.

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.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

I’ll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

When I’m in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal.