Vivienne Westwood, a British fashion icon and designer, passed away at the age of 81.
On April 8, 1941, Vivienne Isabel Swire was born in Derbyshire, England. Her father came from a family of shoemakers, while her mother worked as a weaver at nearby cotton mills. As a youngster, she started sewing clothing for herself.
After attending Harrow Art School for a term, she began working as a primary school teacher before being married to Derek Westwood, a manufacturing worker, in 1962.
But when she divorced her husband and began seeing Malcolm McLaren in 1965, everything changed.
She told Newsweek in 2004: “I felt as if there were so many doors to unlock, and he held the key to all of them.
Without their collaborative effort, it is impossible to picture 1970s Britain. Westwood assisted in creating a visual grammar for the punk movement from a store on London’s King’s Road, where McLaren managed the Sex Pistols.
Where will Vivienne Westwood be buried? Burial site and Find a Grave details
Although the store changed names a few times (Let It Rock, Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, Sex, Seditionaries), its presence on the street remained.
Westwood’s burial site hasn’t been declared by the family at the moment. This will be updated as we continue to follow-up.
