Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood was born on 8 April 1941 and lived until 29 December 2022.
She was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new-wave fashions into the mainstream.
Westwood came to the limelight 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 synthesize clothing and music shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, which was dominated by McLaren’s band, the Sex Pistols. She viewed punk as a way of “seeing if one could put a spoke in the system”.
Westwood opened four shops in London and eventually expanded throughout Britain and the world, selling an increasingly varied range of merchandise, some of which promoted her many political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, climate change, and civil rights groups.
Westwood had two children. Ben Westwood (born 1963), her son with Derek Westwood, is a photographer of erotica. Joseph Corré (born 1967), her son with Malcolm McLaren, is the founder of the lingerie brand Agent Provocateur.
She married her former fashion student, Andreas Kronthaler, in 1992.
For 30 years, Westwood lived in an ex-council flat in Nightingale Lane, Clapham, until, in 2000, Kronthaler convinced her to move into a Queen Anne-style house in Clapham, that was built in 1703, which once belonged to the mother of Captain Cook. She was a keen gardener and a vegetarian.
Vivienne Westwood siblings: Who are Vivienne Westwood’s siblings?
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