Vivienne Westwood

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who melded music and fashion together to help define punk and brought rebellious politics to the catwalk, ...

By the 2000s, she was a full-fledged celebrity, designing wedding dresses not just for the elite, but for iconic TV characters. She got separated from her husband a few years later and started working with band manager Malcolm McLaren. Ms Westwood was a self-taught designer with no formal fashion training.

Westwood's fashion career began in the 1970s when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm. But she went on to enjoy a long career ...

She was named designer of the year by the British Fashion Council in 1990 and 1991. She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but later seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. [Chelsea](https://www.financialexpress.com/about/chelsea/) in 1971, the tail end of the “Swinging London” era ushered in by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. When she wanted to sell 1950s-style clothes at her first shop, she found old clothes in markets and took them apart to understand the cut and construction. She eventually branched out into a range of business activities, including an alliance with Italian designer Giorgio Armani, and developed her ready-to-wear Red Label line, her more exclusive Gold Label line, a menswear collection and fragrances called Boudoir and Libertine. Her family moved to London in 1957 and she attended art school for one term. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting climate change, warning of planetary doom. When asked if she regretted the swastika in a 2009 interview with Time magazine, Westwood said no. In her punk days, Westwood’s clothes were often intentionally shocking: T-shirts decorated with drawings of naked boys and “bondage pants” with sadomasochistic overtones were standard fare in her popular London shops. The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year, her range vast and her work never predictable. It’s very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.Westwood’s eponymous fashion house announced her death on social media platforms, saying she died peacefully.

From Pamela Anderson to Priyanka Chopra, here are some noteworthy looks that Vivienne Westwood created in the course of her long career.

The look comprised a lilac suit and Philip Treacy hat with Lorraine Schwartz’s lightning-bolt earrings. It did not occur to me that, as the photographers were practically on their knees, the result would be more glamorous than I expected.” Besides the dress itself, Parker also wore the memorable ‘bird’ on her head. Back then, the attire had created quite a frenzy for she was photographed without her knickers underneath. View this post on Instagram She made several statements with her head-turning looks that were incorporated in films, on red carpets and runways.

Dame Vivienne Westwood, the British fashion designer who introduced punk and politics to the world of high fashion, passed away at age 81 on December 29.

The cultural secretary Michelle Donelan said Vivienne was a towering figure". She did her schooling at Glossop Grammar School and later moved to the suburbs of London in 1957. The Westwood fashion label's Twitter account wrote, "Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.

Following the death of the "undisputed Queen of British fashion," tributes to Dame Vivienne Westwood have poured in.

He had been in and out of hospital in recent months after a tumor was found on his colon. She had also been inducted into the Fashion Walk of Fame in London and had received an honorary doctorate from the Westwood is known for her use of unconventional materials and patterns, and for combining traditional and modern elements in her designs. Winter is here and it is time to revamp your wardrobe. Dame Vivienne Westwood was a British fashion designer who is known for her cutting-edge and often controversial designs. She passed away on December 29 at the age of 81.

ब्रिटिश की मशहूर फैशन डिजाइनर डेम विविएन वेस्टवुड का गुरुवार को 81 साल की उम्र में निधन ...

वह उनके चारों ओर टैटू है और उनकी प्रेरणा थी। वह हमेशा रचनात्मकता की विरासत रहेंगी।"

AP Her punk style defined a generation in the 1970s, and she went on to become one of the biggest figures in the world of high fashion, as well as an outspoken ...

He had been in and out of hospital in recent months after a tumor was found on his colon. Fellow designer Beckham wrote that she was "so sad to learn of the passing of legendary designer and activist Dame Vivienne Westwood" while another big name of the fashion world, Marc Jacobs, wrote that she "did it first. 7 mins read A true icon. She invented punk." Incredible style with brilliant and meaningful substance."

As Dame Vivienne Westwood died on Thursday at the age of 81, she left behind a legacy of work that would be hard to replicate. Several Hollywood stars took ...

As Dame Vivienne Westwood died on Thursday at the age of 81, she left behind a legacy of work that would be hard to replicate. She remembered Westwood's "generosity and kindness in making that happen and saving the day." Singer Boy George tweeted, "R.I.P to the great and inspiring Vivienne Westwood who lead us through punk and beyond. It was avant-garde and punk and dangerous and rebellious, not one of those words that you would apply to me, and yet I gamely tried to wear them," Curtis wrote on Instagram. The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better." "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.

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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Punk pioneer and iconic fashion maverick Vivienne Westwood passed away yesterday at the age of 81. She has grand stature.

At the peak of her career, Madonna was devoted to Westwoods' 'Witches' line, which she created in partnership with the graffiti artist Keith Haring. She occasionally spoke of leaving the fashion industry to focus on environmental issues. Westwood's career in fashion began in the 1970s when her avant-garde take on urban street style swept the globe.

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 helped create the punk movement as we know it with her provocative designs,. Credit: Andy Hosie/Mirrorpix/Getty ...

[CBS Sunday Morning](https://youtu.be/PVmPQh79Bto)and was named Dame Commander of the British Empire. Contemporary designers are still inspired by the punk scene Westwood helped shape, drawing on the "distressed" look and incorporating tartan and safety pins. Westwood went on to become one of the UK's most celebrated designers, beloved by the mainstream industry she once wanted to repel. "But for somebody my age to think that it's got any credibility in any way -- no it hasn't." It's where Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and friends hung out and where the band [auditioned a green-haired outcast](https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/an-illustrated-history-of-the-sex-pistols-40617/)named John Lydon, better known to many as Johnny Rotten, as its lead singer. Westwood said years later that she didn't want to be a designer but made clothes out of necessity in her teens and when she was asked by McLaren to outfit the new band he was managing, the Sex Pistols. But when the mainstream got its hands on Westwood's punk designs, many of them were uninterested in punk's radical political underpinnings. Disenchanted, Westwood built her eponymous line and split from McLaren. it was just a fashion that became a marketing opportunity for people," she said. When the Sex Pistols' single "God Save the Queen" was banned from British radio, Westwood She was influenced by leather-clad bikers and But before she dressed supermodels and constructed romantic corsets, she ripped up fashion's rule book for a new generation of disillusioned changemakers.

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.

'She turned swinging London into punk London'. Dame Zandra Rhodes, a fashion and textiles giant in the UK, says she was surprised by the news of Westwood's ...

"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".

Vivienne Westwood, who helped brand the punk aesthetic, died Thursday. She was remembered by Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, Mandy Lee, Paul McCartney, ...

Many tributed her contributions to style, especially in founding the punk aesthetic. Everyone from Paul McCartney (who called her “a ballsy lady”) to RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K. But Annie Lennox also paid tribute to her activism.