20 Fashion Quotes By Vivienne Westwood
'I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.'
'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.'
'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.'
'I think dress, hairstyle and
make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give
one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.'
'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.'
'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.'
'I didn't consider myself a
fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way
to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by
the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my
ambition to understand the world I live in.'
'You've got to invest in the
world, you've got to read, you've got to go to art galleries, you've got to
find out the names of plants. You've got to start to love the world and know
about the whole genius of the human race. We're amazing people.
'When we started to do punk, we
put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a
rebel.'
'The thing that makes my
clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs;
they're not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of
decisions.'
'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.'
'I was so upset with what was
going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured
and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had
not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.'
'We moved into the back, made
it into a little 50s sitting room and started to sell the records. We had an
immediate success. For one thing, these Teddy Boys were thrilled to buy the
records.'
'My clothes have always got a
very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they
help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.''
'Britishness is just a way of
putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You
don't care, you just do it and it looks great.'
'We have got to change our
ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world.
It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world.
It could be great.'
'I have certain signatures,
certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving
the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new
ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.'
'The capitalist system is about
taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's
happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are
getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth
is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.'
'Even though it was the 70s, we
found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them
apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula.'
'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.