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.
Vivienne WestwoodRead
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!'
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the disconnect between acknowledging climate change and taking actionable steps towards saving the environment.
Vivienne Westwood highlights the futility of merely agreeing with the idea of climate change without taking action to combat it. The quote reflects frustration towards those in influential positions, such as fashion designers, who acknowledge the problem but feel powerless or unwilling to implement necessary changes to make a difference.
Themes
Climate ChangeActionFashionEnvironmentRainforestActivism
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about sustainability at a fashion conference.
More from Vivienne Westwood
All quotes →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.
Vivienne WestwoodRead
The fight is no longer between the classes or between rich and poor but between the idiots and the eco-conscious.
Vivienne WestwoodRead
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
Vivienne WestwoodRead
Instead of buying six things, buy one thing that you really like. Don't keep buying just for the sake of it.
Vivienne WestwoodRead
I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well - it's good for the environment and to be fair it's also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive.
Vivienne WestwoodRead
Similar quotes
Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
Margaret J. WheatleyRead
The river Rhine, it is well known, _x000D_ _x000D_ Doth wash your city of Cologne; _x000D_ _x000D_ But tell me, nymphs! what power divine _x000D_ _x000D_ Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRead
Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
Edmund HillaryRead
I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.
Monty DonRead
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.
James HuttonRead
I never get tired of the blue sky.
Vincent Van GoghRead