Vivienne Westwood

“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....”

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

“Don't just eat McDonald's, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That's what fashion is. It's something that is a bit better.”

“The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing,...”

“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.”

“The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.”

“I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had no...”

“What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.”

“Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.”

“Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.”

“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 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 t...”

“I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.”

“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.”

“I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.”

“There is so much that people take for granted.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.”

“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.”