The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but even saying it now, I think, 'How can I ever have this experience again?' It was so mesmerizing, so complicated and so primordial; I could not believe it.

I have certain signatures, certain cutting principles. It could be a raw-edged seam; it could be leaving the lining of sheepskin exposed so it's not perfectly finished. I invent new ways to do it, but the end goal is always the same.

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

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

“Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".” 

"In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!"

“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.” 

“Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.” 

“If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.” 

“My clothes have a story. They have an identity. They have a character and a purpose. That's why they become classics. Because they keep on telling a story. They are still telling it.” 

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.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

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.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

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

“You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.” 

“I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.” 

“It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.” 

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

“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.