Vivienne Westwood

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

'For me Margaret Thatcher has always been one of the world's best-dressed people. Her politics were appalling, but her look gave her incredible presence.'

'Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.'

'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.'