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Vivienne Westwood is a celebrated British fashion designer whose avant-garde style and punk-inspired designs have made her a pivotal figure in the fashion industry for over five decades. Born on April 8, 1941, she has been recognized for her unique and innovative designs that have left a lasting impact on the industry.

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“Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.”

People Ifs World Impossible Generations Los Angeles

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“The whole basis of my work is analysing what I do and building some sort of intellectual framework. The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas. They are the only subversion.”

World Ideas Whole Effects Building Intellectual Bases Framework Subversion Analysing

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.”

Ifs World Philosophy Practice Life Philosophy Changing The World Changing Your Life

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

People World Way Whole Dies Understanding Ethics Financial Financial System Understanding The World

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“The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.”

World Ideas Effects

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“Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.”

World Use Position This World Hero My Hero

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“We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.”

World Looks Wanted Artist Steps Color Paper Gold Thirds Add Stuck Teeth Islands Cigarette Pirate Third World

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“I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.”

People Thinking World Should Fashion

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“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.”

World Way Looks War Born Grew Grew Up

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“Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.”

Ifs World Should Humans Able Suffering Chance Human Beings Deals This World Fairs Should Have Hopefully Alleviate

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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.”

World Way Country Fashion Stupid Ambition London Resistance Designer Punk Rebellious My Ambition Fashion Designer Very Stupid

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“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.”

People World Ideas War Done Generations Arms Hated Upset Punk Older Generation

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“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.”

Ifs World Alive Taste Waste Frugal

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

Thinking World Years Said Fashion Years Ago Very Good Currents Not Sure Designer Looking Good

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.”

World Seems Stupid This World Creatures Mentality Herds Most Amazing Herd Mentality

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.”

World Firsts Lost Parent Saws Adults Cruelty Hypocrisy Realised Crucifixion Lost Respect

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“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.”

Men World Should Trying Home Fighting Democracy Fundamentals Masculine Anchors Copying

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“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.”

People Knows World Humans Art Whole Names Race Genius Plant Human Race Gallery Amazing People Art Galleries

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“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.”

World Should Art Vision Timeless Sociological

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“How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else.”

Source: Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood

“I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.”

Thinking World Important Action Opinion

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world”

Knows World Art Girl Class Know How Like Me Working Class Art World

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About the Author

Born: April 8, 1941
Known for: Fashion designer
Quotes: 189

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