Westwood Quotes & Sayings

How impossible it is for us to imagine ourselves victims of disaster. We suffer for the poor people who were thrown into the sea from their cruise ship off the coast of Tuscany, some losing their lives. Imagine a world of accelerating natural disasters, one after the other so that nobody can help anyone else. — Vivienne Westwood

I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager ... I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all. — Vivienne Westwood

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant. — Vivienne Westwood

There is a real connection between culture and climate change. We all have a part to play and if you engage with life, you will get a new set of values, get off the consumer treadmill, and start to think, and it is these great thinkers who will rescue the planet. — Vivienne Westwood

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

A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to ... no matter how many times you have been there before. — Lee Westwood

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did. — Vivienne Westwood

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay. — Lee Westwood

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world. — Vivienne Westwood

Yeah, I feel good. Good about my game and my life. — Lee Westwood

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, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it. — Vivienne Westwood

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 with the same result: making women look fantastic. — Vivienne Westwood

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do. — Vivienne Westwood

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider. — Vivienne Westwood

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising. — Vivienne Westwood

If there had been a moment when the hearts of his enemies were softened, when a throb of pity was felt even by Sydney Vane's elder brother, the implacable old General who had vowed that he would pursue Andrew Westwood to the death, it was when the prisoner's little daughter had been put into the witness-box to give evidence against her father. — Adeline Sergeant

Then eventually Westwood arrived. He looked nothing like Reacher expected, but the reality fit the bill just as well as the preconceptions had. He was an outdoors type, not a lab rat, and sturdy rather than pencil-necked. He looked like a naturalist or an explorer. He had short but unruly hair, fair going gray, and a beard of the same length and color. He was red in the face from sunburn and had squint lines around his eyes. He was forty-five, maybe. He was wearing clothing put together from high-tech fabrics and many zippers, but it was all old and creased. He had hiking boots on his feet, with speckled laces like miniature mountain-climbing ropes. He was toting a canvas bag about as big as a mail carrier's. — Lee Child

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads. — Lee Westwood

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos. — Charli XCX

I am in my own head most of the time. — Vivienne Westwood

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion. — Vivienne Westwood

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish. — Vivienne Westwood

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick. — 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. My parents didn't treat me as a girl. — Vivienne Westwood

Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason. — Vivienne Westwood

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them. — Vivienne Westwood

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself! — Vivienne Westwood

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity. — Vivienne Westwood

I'm hitting it better than last year. The putting is getting close now, too. — Lee Westwood

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way — 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

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve. — Lee Westwood

THE OLD ARE LIKE BOOKS

The old are like books, crack-spined,
Their foxed pages dogeared at favorite paragraphs
While whole chapters have been forgotten.
Each cover scuffed, dust-jackets lost,
Titles alluding to something long out of style,
Prose suffering from an overuse of footnotes,
Occasional longueurs, over-repetitions of the main theme,
But overall, unique and idiosyncratic tales.
Of another era, but preface to this. — David Andrew Westwood

I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain. — Katie McGrath

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. — Vivienne Westwood

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent. — Vivienne Westwood

The best fashion accessory is a book. — Vivienne Westwood

I eat only vegetables and fruit, and to me it's the most aspirational diet because it's so easy. It's quite simple, the cooking I do. — Vivienne Westwood

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga. — Vivienne Westwood

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. — Vivienne Westwood

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens. — Vivienne Westwood

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. — Vivienne Westwood

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests. — Vivienne Westwood

It's better to look important than sexy. — Vivienne Westwood

What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last. — Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood, The Sex Pistols, Seven Stars, coffee with milk and strawberry cake. And Ren flowers.
Nana's favorite things never change.
It was so cool for someone like me who keeps on changing their mind. — Ai Yazawa

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. — Vivienne Westwood

Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second. — Lee Westwood

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70. — Vivienne Westwood

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere. — Vivienne Westwood

I love Vivienne Westwood. Her work is so interesting, you can always find something that's great and fits you. — Beth Ditto

I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely Vivienne. Yes, climate change, it's definitely happening,' but they don't feel that they can do anything about it; they don't even think 'Well let's stop it!' — Vivienne Westwood

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

They didn't want to take the crew-cab back to town, because they didn't want to sit where those guys had sat, so they rode the backhoe, as before, Westwood driving, Reacher and Chang face to face above his head, but this time on the dirt road. Which was slow, but more comfortable. They parked in the dealer's lot. The salesman came out. The backhoe was examined. It was a little stained by crushed wheat, and a little scratched on the sides. There was a little dirt caked on. And the front bucket had a dimple, where the bullet had struck. Not new anymore. Not exactly. Reacher gave the guy five grand from their leftover money. Easy come, easy go. Then — Lee Child

I never take myself too seriously. — Lee Westwood

The last people with any ideas are young people. — Vivienne Westwood

People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship. — Lee Westwood

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors. — Lee Westwood

The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious. — Vivienne Westwood

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing. — Vivienne Westwood

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts. — Lee Westwood

In history people dressed much better than we do today. — Vivienne Westwood

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. — Vivienne Westwood

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. — Vivienne Westwood

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics. — Vivienne Westwood

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes. — Vivienne Westwood

The satisfaction you get when you finally beat your dad is amazing, that rush of adrenaline. — Lee Westwood

Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are. — Lee Westwood

My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.' — Lee Westwood

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

I can't think without my glasses. — Vivienne Westwood

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse. — Vivienne Westwood

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men. — Vivienne Westwood

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

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand. — Vivienne Westwood

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much. — Vivienne Westwood

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality. — Vivienne Westwood

I think it's important to vote. — Vivienne Westwood

I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city. — Richard Rodriguez

I'm the best in the world. — Lee Westwood

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let's make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow. — Vivienne Westwood

Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. — Vivienne Westwood

The muscular, athletic type is not representative of the human race, who are varied in their physique. — Vivienne Westwood

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish. — Vivienne Westwood

I don't watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched 'The King's Speech' on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple. — Vivienne Westwood

I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there. — Kate O'Mara

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

I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming. — Vivienne Westwood

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. — Vivienne Westwood

It's just so impressive to see how the women have used making Fair Trade clothes to escape poverty and empower themselves and their children. - Emma Watson — Safia Minney

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

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

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. — Vivienne Westwood

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same. — Vivienne Westwood

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you. — Vivienne Westwood

I don't feel very comfortable defending my fashion except to say that people don't have to buy it. You do have to consume. You have to live. If you've got the money to be able to afford it, then it's really good to buy something from me, but don't buy too much. — Vivienne Westwood

There's always a polemic in my clothes. — Vivienne Westwood

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. — Vivienne Westwood

Save the rainforest for your loved ones — Vivienne Westwood

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world. — Vivienne Westwood