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Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RDI (née Swire; 8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022) was a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
Dec 30, 2022 · Vivienne Westwood helped develop punk as a style, an ethos and a movement in the 1970s when she outfitted the Sex Pistols and inspired British youth to rebel.
Dec 30, 2022 · LONDON — 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...
2 days ago · No designer has embodied staunch activism so much as Westwood did. What began as a general anti-establishment bent with the punk mores of SEX and Seditionaries found form by the mid-1980s through her anti-nuclear sentiments, present in the brightly hued dystopia of collections like 1984’s “Clint Eastwood.”
Jun 8, 2024 · Vivienne Westwood (born April 8, 1941, Glossop, Derbyshire, England—died December 29, 2022, London) was a British fashion designer known for her provocative clothing. With her partner, Malcolm McLaren, she extended the influence of the 1970s punk music movement into fashion.
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Feb 16, 2023 · The near-impossible task of honouring Vivienne Westwood has to begin by saying this: above all, she was a great Englishwoman – a unique designer who pushed fashion history forward, and who then used all of her power to stand up for the future of the world.
Dec 30, 2022 · British fashion designer and style icon Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, at her home in London on Thursday, according to an official...
