Vivienne Westwood Quotes About Fashion
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The sexiest people are thinkers.
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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.
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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.
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I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.
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To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read.
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Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.
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Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.
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Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.
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I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!'
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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.
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My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it.
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.
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If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.
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The best fashion accessory is a book.
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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.
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I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
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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.
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Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
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Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
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I'm not sure what I think about current fashion, though. A few years ago, I would have said it's really, really bad and you hardly ever see anybody looking good. There must be some very good designers in the world.
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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.
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At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
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I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
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I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.
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I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
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If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
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The only reason I'm in fashion is to destroy the word conformity.
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