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.”

“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.”

“I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.”

“I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?”

“I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.”

“I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the t...”

“I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.”

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

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

“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 cou...”

“The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of ric...”

“Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.”

“It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.”

“I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes alive. It tastes good.”

“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.”

“I can't think without my glasses.”

“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 wi...”

“When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.”

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

“I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.”