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.
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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.
Be the designer of your own destiny.
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
Fashion is in the sky, in the street.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.
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!'
I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.
Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
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