Vivienne Westwood

"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. "

"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."

"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. "

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

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

"First the designs were unisex and then we created clothes for women and young girls. "

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

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

"I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire. "

"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 think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features. "

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

"I think it's important to vote. "

"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. "

"I think women (and men) should flirt: all's fair in love and war. "

"I was in Italy looking for basic fabrics and started to work with Harris tweed and I decided to do a really kitsch collection based on very, very English things. "

"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. "

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

"I'd done a fragrance before, but in a small way, and now I wanted to wait for the right time to make an important fragrance statement. "

"I'm English and I started showing in London, but as soon as I could - at the time of my third fashion show - I moved to Paris. "

"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. "

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

"It's a different thing altogether than when you are using your eyes and body language to create clothes. You can adjust. "

"Malcolm and I created punk rock fashion, which we sold in our shop and which was promoted through The Sex Pistols. "

"My clothes are very popular in Japan. "

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

"Nazism is politically embedded in our history and it is still there, spreading like an oil stain in a society that worships business. "

"Now Eminem is getting together with Elton John, he appears to be a more calculating opportunist. Perhaps he should ask the chainsaw companies to design his clothes and sponsor his tour. "

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

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

"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. "