"I didn't want to do it in the first place, I wanted to read books, but I knew I was good at it." - Vivienne Westwood on designing clothes. Thank god

"If it's raining, take the plastic shower curtain, and you might look great." - Dame Viv to The Guardian.

"The most important thing is, to save the rainforest." - Vivienne Westwood to Cory Kennedy on NylonTV.

"The rise and rise of shorts, in numbers and hem heights, confirms my long-nurtured opinion that, with the exception of poor government funding, nothi