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 More Quotes by Vivienne Westwood More Quotes From Vivienne Westwood I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. Vivienne Westwood environmental writing people The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion. Vivienne Westwood generations movement hippie There's always a polemic in my clothes. Vivienne Westwood polemics clothes My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent. Vivienne Westwood talent criticism people I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it? Vivienne Westwood going-out names needs 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 Vivienne Westwood clothes artist thinking Nothing is costed properly and it's destroying the earth. We need to re-educate people that what is good for the planet is good for the financial system. Vivienne Westwood earth people needs I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there. Vivienne Westwood air people art I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader. Vivienne Westwood good-person bigs children I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work. Vivienne Westwood design moments Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn. Vivienne Westwood fashion stones thinking A relationship should be based on friendship. I remember somebody telling me that when I was younger and I just thought, you know, stupid people, with that rubbish. But now I see that that is so important. Vivienne Westwood important stupid people I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back! Vivienne Westwood chinese horse 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. Vivienne Westwood london artist want All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish. Vivienne Westwood rubbish expression self To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. Vivienne Westwood fashion reading book Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed. Vivienne Westwood bed home mean 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. Vivienne Westwood color artist islands 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. Vivienne Westwood most-amazing stupid world Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do. Vivienne Westwood hymns community church
