Vivienne Westwood

Westwood, who was also awarded damehood by the late Queen Elizabeth II, was born April 8, 1941.

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.

In a Twitter statement on Thursday, Westwood's fashion house confirmed the designer died "peacefully and surrounded" by family.

"She led an amazing life," the statement said. Thank you darling." Whereas the band and others like them helped spread the punk lifestyle, Westwood's work had a profound impact on the subculture's aesthetic. It was so influential from the mid-70s." Her runway looks included corset tops, ruffled plaid, strong catchphrases, and striking animal prints. She first worked as an elementary school teacher.

English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, whose work popularized British punk aesthetics, died Dec. 29, 2022, in a London suburb.

As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections around the world. The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York.

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The Queen of Punk had a resurgence of sorts in the last few years as Gen Z celebs embraced her designs. Born in Armenia and raised in Glendale, she studied communication, art history and sociocultural linguistics at UC Santa Barbara and journalism at Columbia University. Before joining The Times in 2022, she spent almost 10 years at Variety as a news editor.

Doyenne of British design Vivienne Westwood, who melded music and fashion together to help define punk and brought rebellious politics to the catwalk, ...

Who needs leaders who are a total rip-off, who create war and torture?" "Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London. "We saw it as a question of youth against age. Thank you darling." "Her punk style rewrote the rule book in the 1970s and (she) was widely admired for how she stayed true to her own values throughout her life," she wrote on Twitter. Doyenne of British design Vivienne Westwood, who melded music and fashion together to help define punk and brought rebellious politics to the catwalk, died on Thursday aged 81, her family said.

As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday at the age of 81, was synonymous with 1970s punk rock, a rebelliousness ...

Her sky-high platform shoes garnered worldwide attention in 1993 when model Naomi Campbell stumbled on the catwalk in a pair. From the late 1960s, she lived in a small flat in south London for some 30 years and cycled to work. Their son Ben was born in 1963, and the couple divorced in 1966. Because they keep on telling a story. But, ever keen to shock, Westwood turned up at Buckingham Palace without underwear – a fact she proved to photographers by a revealing twirl of her skirt. “Nothing is interesting to me unless it’s got that element.”

The London shop she ran with Malcolm McLaren defined an era. “I don't think punk would have happened,” Chrissie Hynde said, “without Vivienne and Malcolm.”

Their aggressively delivered songs, with names like “Anarchy in the U.K.” and “God Save the Queen,” were a soundtrack to the nihilism of Britain in the 1970s. And I blamed the older generation for what was going on too,” she added, “so we wouldn’t even accept their taboos. “It was the hippies who taught my generation about politics, and that’s what I cared about — the world being so corrupt and mismanaged, people suffering, wars, all these terrible things.”… And the look was important.” They saw the store as a laboratory and a salon. In a memoir published in 2014 and simply called “Vivienne Westwood,” Ms. McLaren, an art school dropout who was inspired by the theater of the absurd as championed by the French Situationists, could be controversial; they once included swastikas in their designs. She was quoted in Ms. In shaping the look of the era, Ms. “It’s not about fashion, you see,” she wrote. She’s very focused on the English tradition of tailoring.” The business, which had a pink vinyl sign out front, was an unconventional one, selling fetish wear and fashions inspired by the Teddy Boy look of the 1950s.

'She was always trying to reinvent fashion,' said Andrew Bolton, a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

“Fashion can be so boring,” she told The Associated Press at a 2010 fashion show. In particular, one of Westwood’s most notorious designs depicted a swastika and an upside-down caricature of a crucified Jesus Christ with the word “Destroy”. Westwood later clarified in an autobiography written in collaboration with Ian Kelly that the clothing design was intended to be a political statement against the dangers of fascism. Westwood also designed the dress Assange’s wife, Stella Moris, wore at the [couple’s prison wedding](/news/2021/11/12/assange-gets-permission-to-marry-in-uk-prison) in London this past March. “Love you Viv.” In the 1960s, Westwood met Sex Pistols manager and one-time partner Malcolm McLaren. She was globally known for her extravagant fashion shows and for bringing the punk aesthetic into the mainstream. The company said the British fashion icon died “peacefully and surrounded by her family” in South London. It’s very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. Westwood was largely self-taught and did not possess any form of fashion training. The punk movement has never dissipated – it’s become part of our fashion vocabulary.” It was so influential from the mid-70s.

JOHANNESBURG - To some, Vivienne Westwood will be remembered as the brains behind Carrie Bradshaw's iconic wedding gown on Sex and The City.

Her innovation and impact over the last 60 years have been immense and will continue into the future". JOHANNESBURG - To some, Vivienne Westwood will be remembered as the brains behind Carrie Bradshaw’s iconic wedding gown on Sex and The City. The 81-year-old died on Thursday in her home in Clapham, South London.

The designer and punk pioneer passed away 'peacefully and surrounded by her family' in Clapham, South London.

We have been working until the end and she has given me plenty of things to get on with. Westwood’s husband and creative partner, Andreas Kronthaler, 56, said about going on without her: “I will continue with Vivienne in my heart. “Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until the last moment, designing, working on her art, writing her book, and changing the world for the better.

Westwood died "peacefully and surrounded by her family" in London. Tributes are pouring in from around the world.

Dame Vivienne Westwood, the fashion designer, activist and iconoclast, has died today at the age of 81. [https://t.co/OVKQDeuh8v] [pic.twitter.com/d9S0xQsamt] [December 30, 2022] [https://t.co/g6pd1I5UbI] [pic.twitter.com/YkPKc5rq7g] [December 29, 2022] [pic.twitter.com/5JMFbD8SqO] [December 29, 2022] She never failed to surprise and shock. Incredible style with brilliant and meaningful substance.

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The Britich self-taught designer also created designs based on the ideas of Malcolm McLaren, the manager of pop rock band Sex Pistols, who she formed a ...

The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better. Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London. Her desire to make the world a better place led to her activism as she lobbied for environmental reforms and created the Climate Revolution in 2012.

As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Westwood was synonymous with 1970s punk rock.

She held a large “climate revolution” banner at the 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony in London, and frequently turned her models into catwalk eco-warriors. Her sky-high platform shoes garnered worldwide attention in 1993 when model Naomi Campbell stumbled on the catwalk in a pair. From the late 1960s, she lived in a small flat in south London for some 30 years and cycled to work. Their son Ben was born in 1963, and the couple divorced in 1966. “Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London. But, ever keen to shock, Westwood turned up at Buckingham Palace without underwear — a fact she proved to photographers by a revealing twirl of her skirt.

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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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.

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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.

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"When I first saw Vivienne's clothes in real life it was in her shop in Liverpool, and I had never ever seen such fabrics and shapes until that day," says the 32-year-old based in York. " Fashion designer Matty Bovan first discovered Westwood as a teenager when he spotted her work in an issue of fashion magazine Vogue. Describing Westwood's allure, Matty explains: "She rewrote the whole book of what modern fashion is, from everything to the cutting, to the use of sportswear, to all the historical references, to all the English textiles and craft. "It's a nod to her - the tartan, the punky skulls - it's everything she was about." "From the moment I decided to set the business up, I knew I wanted it to be inspired by Vivienne," she said, "just at a cheaper price point".

Doyenne of British design Vivienne Westwood, who melded music and fashion together to help define punk and brought rebellious politics to the catwalk.

Who needs leaders who are a total rip-off, who create war and torture?" "We saw it as a question of youth against age. "Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London. And she held on to her edge even as she was embraced by the establishment, thanks largely to her energetic activism for environmental causes. Thank you darling." "Her punk style rewrote the rule book in the 1970s and (she) was widely admired for how she stayed true to her own values throughout her life," she wrote on Twitter.