Vivienne Westwood on capitalism and clothing: 'Buy less, choose well, make it last'

Vivienne Westwood on capitalism and clothing: 'Buy less, choose well, make it last' | Guardian Live

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Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood on the end of capitalism; why we need to spend more on food and clothing; and why we should avoid fracking.
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@1day2dayme 7 жыл бұрын

If you don't like the pricing of her designs then don't buy it. People who lash out on her probably wouldn't have a disagreement on how much a painting in a gallery would cost coz they believe that's art and fashion is not. When a designer reach a certain artistic level her design could be art too.

@RubiMercuri 4 жыл бұрын

And viviennes designs are real art. They arent like other designers nowadays that create clothes that look unwearable. Vivienne makes all her clothers look wearable and not outrages looking. I feel the prices are reasonable. Theres so much history behind her brand

@davidcannon1726 Жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely right about that!💯‼️👏🏻👏🏻🥳🎉🎊

@cherylbaker4290 7 ай бұрын

I love Vivienne Westwood and her fashion I would rather buy something from her and wear it a lot and make it last then a £5 t shirt that you wear once and throw it away because it's poor quality

@peachesb-georgia1125 6 жыл бұрын

Love most of her clothes. Love her perfume. I agree with the lady. Buy less. Buy well and make it last. I think she was referring to clothes not food.

@elizabethdjokovic2691 5 жыл бұрын

Over the years I've bought clothes that seem to be indestructible and I can't see the point in discarding anything unless it's unuseable or it doesnt fit or it doesn't look good on me. I dont think there's such a thing as fashion anymore. Its a case of anything goes. Each person creates their own fashion persona.

@TuanNguyen-ny1zj 4 жыл бұрын

Love Vivienne Westwood Truly a Queen of Punk

@georgegreig8054 Жыл бұрын

She truly wasn't the queen of punk you cliche repeating brain doner.

@randomtrucks 7 жыл бұрын

Nothing she says in this video is in any way offensive to anyone, so I wonder why people in the comments continue to lash out in offensive slurs and and call her names. Literally everything she does is promote progressive ideas and the concept of not wasting every single fucking thing we have on this One planet we inhabit. Please, tone down your fucking ego for once in a while and think before vomiting onto the comment section. Thank you.

@georgegreig8054 Жыл бұрын

You should your own advice.

@bealtainecottage 5 жыл бұрын

Great interview!

@VUDUVOX 5 жыл бұрын

Buy well, choose well, and steal my book to avoid paying an arm and a leg for it !

@mieliav 4 жыл бұрын

let's reject ties - tons of synthetics and natural fibers produced for decoration...let's reject nail polish - tons of harmful chemicals every year. have to start somewhere, so it might as well be the easy stuff - and the stuff wh/ makes a public statement.

@astraxskii1844 Жыл бұрын

Fly high Vivienne 🕊

@hallson2917 Жыл бұрын

R.I.P Vivienne!

@unitedqueendombob5951 9 жыл бұрын

Russell Brand vivienne quoted you!! haha

@pierocastoldi5352 3 ай бұрын

1:15

@ulfutstrand 6 жыл бұрын

But maybe Dame Westwood could be a politician worldwide, and make clothing more lastable....so when we buy less, we buy more...for less..yes ?

@noralie3295 Жыл бұрын

i love her, this comment section is not it

@comixdiscomix 8 жыл бұрын

It is a little ironic coming from someone who sells $1000 dresses, but I love her all the same.

@dabi5144 5 жыл бұрын

They cost 1000 cause they are not made from plastic and slaves.

@graveraider1029 2 жыл бұрын

@@dabi5144 so again who is her message for the poor working class or?

@minikaur4993 2 жыл бұрын

@@graveraider1029 literally for people who can afford it.

@graveraider1029 2 жыл бұрын

So she doesn't want fracking in her country but rather have it done in countries where there is no regulation for the fossil fuels they get imported in their country.

@redbird9658 4 жыл бұрын

Celebrities with millions in the bank are fond of preaching to those who don't have much.

@williamrobinson4265 3 жыл бұрын

it's all neoliberal talking points??

@danh5637 4 жыл бұрын

Someone selling 300quid t shirts preaching against capitalism. Only in the Guardian

@jfreeman2047 3 жыл бұрын

That's the point. But VW doesn't sell £300 T-shirts. However, her clothes are viewed as expensive in a world filled with cheap fast fashion. £5 T-shirts that destroy the environment, employe slave labour and last less than a year before they are cast into landfill, subsequently taking 1000 years to breakdown, polluting as they do. Let's say you buy a white £5 T-shirt and you replace it 100 times in your lifetime? Compared to a VW T-shirt that costs more upfront but will last a lifetime if you look after it. All of a sudden the figures don't add up... You have a skewed view on capitalism.

@georgegreig8054 Жыл бұрын

Strange tautology.

@Kleine-Blume Жыл бұрын

Oh man.... 👎

@williamrobinson4265 3 жыл бұрын

disappointed but not surprised ayes stayed from the academic core and has been normalized into western neoliberal feel goodness let's have a serious conversation about the cost of Americans sourcing and manufacturing their own iPhones clothing has been made sustainably for millenia

@deedonnerramone4757 2 жыл бұрын

Fossil Fuel is not running out. 200-400 year supply that is known. Oil, coal, shale, more as technology advances. Capitalism is what drives food production, drug research, international trade, defeating poverty, hunger, disease. Free Market Capitalism is what has allowed humans to thrive. I get a kick out of these wealthy communists. Amazing really.