“I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.” 

“Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.” 

“I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.” 

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

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

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

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

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

Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans.

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.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

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

Fashion has become so whatever. I don't think there are any stones left to unturn.

I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

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 wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

I don't think punk fashion is a specter or overemphasized - it made a big impression, as there had never been anything like it before.

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.

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.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

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.

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.