Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 08. April 1941 |
Geburtsort | Tintwistle |
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Beschreibung | Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood, DBE, (* 8. April 1941 als Vivienne Isabel Swire in Tintwistle, Derbyshire) ist eine englische Modedesignerin. Sie wurde bekannt mit der Erfindung der Punk-Mode Mitte der 1970er-Jahre. Heute sind ihre Entwürfe geprägt von neu und exzentrisch zusammengesetzten Kombinationen aus historischer Bekleidung, seltenem Textilgewebe und farbenfrohen Webmustern. Von 1989 bis 2005 nahm sie Lehraufträge für Modedesign an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien und an der Universität der Künste Berlin wahr. Vivienne Westwood engagiert sich in vielen Initiativen im Bereich von Menschenrechten, Abrüstung und Umweltschutz. |
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.
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.
I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much.
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.
Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.
In history people dressed much better than we do today.
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
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.
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.
