Vivienne Westwood Artist Quotations

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.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

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.

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The young Japanese, especially, love to wear the latest thing and when they come to London they head for my shops as part of what they want to find in Britain.

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.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.

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.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.