Quotes from Vivienne Westwood

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.

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

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.

What changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock 'n roll records to trendy customers.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

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.

The last people with any ideas are young people.

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.

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.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

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.

I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

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

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

If you hear Anarchy in the UK today your hair stands on end. It gives you the shivers.

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.

I do not approve of museums trying just to get people to come in. Whistler was very, very clear on this.

I am in my own head most of the time.

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.

I like to literally put women on a pedestal