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. Vivienne Westwood More Quotes by Vivienne Westwood More Quotes From Vivienne Westwood I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different. Vivienne Westwood clothes hair morning I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread. Vivienne Westwood tasks trying thinking I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish you didn't have to design so often; it would be good if you could keep on selling the same things for a few years and not have to do new things all the time. Vivienne Westwood design wish years I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. 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. Vivienne Westwood clothes littles people 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. Vivienne Westwood space artist example 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 bags care dresses 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 fashion years thinking 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 jail fighting rights He's so passionate about fashion that over the years he's just really taken over all the experimental stuff, he's just taken over and I've had to follow him and he calls me his muse, obviously I'm interfering and doing a few things as well ... And I just thought it's time that the public understood the truth of it. I think he's the greatest designer in the world. Vivienne Westwood lifestyle I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest. Vivienne Westwood save plan think endangered-species I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition. Vivienne Westwood throw away you tradition