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Vivienne Westwood
British fashion designer (1941–2022)
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (née Swire; 8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022) was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.[6] In 2022, Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the last 50 years.[7]
Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for the boutique that she and Malcolm McLaren ran on King's Road, which became known as Sex. Their ability to synchronise clothing and music shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, which included McLaren's grupp, the Sex Pistols. She viewed punk as a way of "seeing if one could put a spoke in the system".[8]
Westwood opened four shops in London and eventually expanded throughout Britain and the world, selling a varied range of merchandise, some of which promoted her political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, cli
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In the course of her long career, Dame Vivienne Westwood gifted us not only with unforgettable runway experiences (like Naomi Campbell’s unplanned tumble during the fall 1993 show) but a great number of personal style moments as well.
The mother of punk, Westwood had little patience for propriety or prudery, as evidenced by a famous picture in which she’s joined by Chrissie Hynde and shopgirl Jordan. All are standing with their backs to the camera, their bottoms painted with letters spelling out the name of the designer’s boutique, which is 1977, was called Sex. Fast forward 43 years and there’s Westwood showing lots of leg and exposing her pull-up stockings, this time without garters, in the spring 2021 lookbook for the Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood collection.
These were conscious exposures; the designer’s most infamous reveal, in contrast, was presumably unplanned and took place in 1992 when Westwood went to Buckingham Palace to receive her OBE. She was dressed in a
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The History of Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood was, by far, an unconventional, provocative, and progressive British mode designer. She was, indeed, a true Dame – as she is often referred to (she was invited by Buckingham Palace in 2006 to accept her Damehood). The different fashion movements that characterized her career can be clearly divided between 4 different periods: the Punk era in the 70s, the Pagan years in the 80s, Anglomania in the 90s, and the era of social and political activism from the 2000s up to the present day.
As the Dame passed away on månad 29 of 2022, let’s look more closely at each of these time periods and revisit the highlights of her exciting career.
The early life and trajectory of Vivienne Westwood and how she made it into the fashion world are interesting to look at. Born Vivienne Isabel Swire on April 8, 1941, in the English town of Glossop in Derbyshire, she grew up in a humble family non-related to fashion at all, as he