If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them – they are individual and stylish. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
I don’t have faith in young people any more. I don’t waste time trying to communicate with them. – Vivienne Westwood
I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice. – Vivienne Westwood
I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position. – 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. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
I don’t feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you’ve got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don’t buy too much. – Vivienne Westwood
What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‘n roll records to trendy customers. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost. – 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. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it’s the most aspirational diet because it’s so easy. It’s quite simple, the cooking I do. – Vivienne Westwood
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. – Vivienne Westwood
I do think we’re an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest. – Vivienne Westwood