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Vivienne Westwood (26)

Birth:	8th April, 1941
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Businesswoman, Fashion Designer

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Dame Vivienne Westwood is an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.

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• 1921 - Hal David
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• 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.

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• We based the look on rock ‘n roll right from the beginning.

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• My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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• But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I’ve been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

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• I think it’s important to vote.

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

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• 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.

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• Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

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• Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

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

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• It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

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• I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

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• 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.

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

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• We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.

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