Vivienne Westwood

The pioneer who brought punk-inspired creations to the mainstream has died aged 81.

As well as climate change, Westwood became a vocal supporter for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act. I am grateful for the moments I got to share with you and Andreas." They shot to fame in 1976 wearing Westwood and McLaren's designs. The Victoria and Albert Museum, which houses some of her works, described Westwood as a "true revolutionary and rebellious force in fashion". Singer Boy George, who first met Westwood in the early 1980s, called her "great and inspiring" and "without question she is the undisputed Queen of British fashion". Westwood made her name with her controversial punk and new wave styles in the 1970s and went on to dress some of the biggest stars in fashion.

Her fashion house announced her death on Twitter, saying Westwood died peacefully at home in London, surrounded by family. “29th December 2022. Vivienne ...

“They gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past,” he said. The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year. It was so influential from the mid-70s. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York. There was never more need for the Tao today. The quote from Westwood read: “Tao spiritual system.

Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, has died aged 81.

She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but over time seemed to tire of the clamour and buzz. “Fashion can be so boring,” she told The Associated Press after unveiling one of her new collections at a 2010 show. When asked if she regretted the swastika design in a [2009 interview with Time magazine,](https://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1871537,00.html) Westwood said no. “They gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past,” he said. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled. It’s very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections throughout the world. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York. The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year. She is very proud of her Englishness, and still she sends it up,” Bolton said. It was so influential from the mid-70s. “The ripped shirts, the safety pins, the provocative slogans.

British fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood, who is credited with popularizing the punk aesthetic, died Thursday, her fashion house said.

Westwood is survived by her husband and her two sons. [she ran](https://www.nme.com/news/music/vivienne-westwood-died-81-fashion-designer-activist-punk-3372441) with Malcom McLaren, Sex Pistols manager and father to one of her sons. Influencing both music and fashion, Westwood created as part of a political movement.

Westwood's fashion career began in the 1970s with the punk explosion, when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm.

She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but over time seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. "Fashion can be so boring," she told The Associated Press after unveiling one of her new collections at a 2010 show. "They gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past," he said. But Westwood was able to make the transition from punk to haute couture without missing a beat, keeping her career going without stooping to self-caricature. As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections throughout the world. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York.

Westwood had carved out a long career in fashion, from her roots in the 1970s punk scene to runway shows worldwide.

Laughed at by the fashion industry but without question she is the undisputed Queen of British fashion. to the great and inspiring Vivienne Westwood who led us through punk and beyond. “Vivienne Westwood was a creative icon who helped cement the UK at the very forefront of modern fashion. Vivienne Westwood was a creative icon who helped cement the UK at the very forefront of modern fashion. R.I.P to the great and inspiring Vivienne Westwood who lead us through punk and beyond.— Boy George (@BoyGeorge) Boy George shared a photo of himself with Westwood on his Twitter page, remembering her as “the undisputed Queen of British fashion”.

By Andre Rhoden-Paul, BBC News. British fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood has died, aged 81. In a statement on Twitter, her fashion house said she ...

As well as climate change, Westwood became a vocal supporter for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act. I am grateful for the moments I got to share with you and Andreas." They shot to fame wearing Westwood and McLaren's designs. "Her punk style rewrote the rule book in the 1970s and was widely admired for how she stayed true to her own values throughout her life." The Victoria and Albert Museum, which houses some of her works, described Westwood as a "true revolutionary and rebellious force in fashion". Westwood made her name with her controversial punk and new wave styles in the 1970s and went on to dress some of the biggest names in fashion.

Westwood's eponymous fashion house announced her death on social media platforms, saying she died peacefully.

But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York. "The ripped shirts, the safety pins, the provocative slogans. The punk movement has never dissipated - it's become part of our fashion vocabulary.

"Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London," her fasion house wrote on Twitter.

Alongside then-partner and Sex Pistols band manager Malcolm McLaren, she established the look of punk in the mid-1970s. And in so doing, she also changed ...

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No fashion designer ever had a Paris show like the one staged by Vivienne Westwood in 1991. Although she was by then 50 and had been making clothes for sale ...

Westwood accepted an offer of management from the fashion PR Carlo D’Amario, and they travelled to Italy to seek backing for a label of her own. With introductions from rag trade friends, she moved incrementally into bank loans and business funding to pay off the debts of Worlds End, and to buy rather than rent her second shop, in Davies Street, Mayfair. Westwood’s politics, unstoppably advocated, were anti-establishment, whatever the current establishment might be, and settled in the direction of Green party-pro-environmentalism, although there were problems over her company’s tax-related fine for undervaluing its assets, and its corporate tax wriggles. The Harris tweed, tartan and barathea of her collection of 1987, again sewn in the flat, recalled Glossop’s stout wool stuffs, respecting tradition yet radically cut. Westwood was discovering that her work was known, and admired, more outside Britain than in it. She returned to her parents, and began to make jewellery for a stall in Portobello Road. These she printed with slogans and lewd images, gay and straight; she distressed and adorned them, dyed them in her bath and stitched on chicken bones boiled clean in the kitchen. Its next incarnation was as SEX, in 1974, with Westwood sourcing its stock of rubber fetish-wear through the pages of Exchange & Mart. Her father was a factory worker; her mother had been in the mills and appreciated a length of good wool worsted – although everything was in short supply during Viv’s childhood. She became a primary school teacher and in 1962 married Derek Westwood, a toolmaker with ambitions, which he achieved, to be an airline pilot. She was born in Tintwistle, just outside the mill town of Glossop, Derbyshire, the daughter of Dora (nee Ball) and Gordon Swire. No fashion designer ever had a Paris show like the one staged by Vivienne Westwood in 1991.

From Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington, to Marc Jacobs and Donatella Versace, the most moving tributes from the fashion world to Vivienne Westwood.

I will forever be grateful to have been in your orbit, because to me and most in fashion—and in humanity—you, Vivienne, were the sun. She was kind, normal, and messianic, all uniquely rolled into one visionary force who had not one jot of grandeur about her incredible standing as one of the most influential designers in the world. From the first day I met you to the last day I saw you, you made me smile, listen, learn and love more than the day before. She was one of the very greatest British women, always ahead of her time. Thereon, she heroically devoted herself to standing up for civilized critical and radical thinking, constantly using her position in fashion to speak out about the urgency of environmental destruction. Thank you, Vivienne, for staying so true to your principles and values and most importantly, for leading the way with spunk and with humor.” This talented and brilliant lady was so unique and so punk in all the ways punk should be. Vivienne invented historic fashion design moments that woke us all up and shook the industry to its core. Vivienne once faxed me a handwritten letter inviting me to participate in one of her shows, as one did in the early ’90s. To be able to visit with you recently I feel blessed and will carry that memory in my heart always. You never failed to surprise and to shock. And your beautiful love story with Andreas, one we’d read about in fairy tales, that I was able to witness for decades.

Vivienne Westwood, iconic fashion designer, died Thursday at age 81. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ian Kelly, the co-author of Vivienne Westwood's memoir, ...

And - but it was typical of Vivienne because, you know, she was very proud of her - I guess that was the OBE and then her damehood from the queen. I mean, you know, she was cycling to work in London, you know, every day on platform heels all the way through her 70s and working, you know, right to the end. And she was fascinating to be around in that regard 'cause she was, you know, the most curious person I've ever met, in both senses of the word - so interested in everything but also, you know, kind of eccentric. But the look - well, yeah, I suppose you'd characterize it, as you mentioned, with an idea of the semi-destroyed, the punk look that addressed a lot of sort of ideas from contemporary art then of sticking things onto things, safety pins and the like that have become mainstream, the deconstruction of clothes so that you notice, to an extent, how they are made, rather in the ways they were experimenting with modern architecture at the same time. You could date to her the platform shoe, the modern corset, the idea of, you know, underwear as outerwear. She was 81 and widely respected as one of the most influential fashion designers of the 20th century.