Editing Vivienne Westwood (section)

===Active Resistance manifesto===
In a 2007 interview, Westwood spoke out against what she perceived as the "drug of [[consumerism]]".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/may/12/shopping.fashion1|work=The Guardian|location=London, England|title=All hail the Queen|first=Emma|last=Brockes|date=11 May 2007|access-date=9 April 2010}}</ref> She said: "I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much" in response to claims that [[anti-consumerism]] and fashion contradict each other.<ref name="observer-dec-07">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/dec/02/fashion.women|work=The Guardian|location=London, England|title=I don't feel comfortable defending my clothes. But if you've got the money to afford them, then buy something from me. Just don't buy too much|date=2 December 2007|access-date=9 April 2010|first=Carole|last=Cadwallader}}</ref>

Later, Westwood created a manifesto called ''Active Resistance to Propaganda'', which she said deals with the pursuit of art in relation to the human predicament and climate change.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://activeresistance.co.uk|title=Climate Revolution : Vivienne's Diary|website=Activeresistance.co.uk|access-date=21 February 2016}}</ref> She claimed that her manifesto "penetrates to the root of the human predicament and offers the underlying solution. We have the choice to become more cultivated and therefore more human – or by muddling along as usual we shall remain the destructive and self-destroying animal, the victim of our own cleverness."<ref>Vivienne Westwood, [http://activeresistance.co.uk/getalife/manifesto.html Manifesto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307195539/http://activeresistance.co.uk/getalife/manifesto.html |date=7 March 2011 }}, activeresistance.co.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2016.</ref> The manifesto was read by Westwood at a number of venues including the [[London Transport Museum]] and distributed after readings as a booklet.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Westwood |first1=Vivienne |title=Vivienne Westwood's manifesto – Active resistance to propaganda |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/may/12/fashion.features4 |work=The Guardian |date=12 May 2007 |language=en}}</ref> It was then written in the form of a play and staged at the Bloomsbury Ballroom by [[Forbidden London]] and [[Dave West (entrepreneur)|Dave West]] on 4 December 2009. It starred [[Michelle Ryan]] and a number of other British actors.<ref>Vivienne Westwood's – 'Active Resistance to Propaganda'- Forbidden London- part 1 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc4hQ47jbyY] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508215023/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc4hQ47jbyY&gl=US&hl=en|date=8 May 2020}}</ref>

Westwood's manifesto was criticized by eco-activists who claimed that despite her calls to save the environment, she herself made no concessions to making her clothing or her business eco-friendly.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://eluxemagazine.com/magazine/vivienne-westwoods-climate-revolution-charter-criticized|title=Vivienne Westwood's Climate Revolution Charter: A Critique|work=Eluxe Magazine|date=28 March 2013|access-date=2 August 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403150015/http://eluxemagazine.com/magazine/vivienne-westwoods-climate-revolution-charter-criticized/|archive-date=3 April 2014}}</ref>