Vivienne Westwood

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Snead, Elizabeth (29 October 2012). "Vivienne Westwood Aids WikiLeaks With 'I Am Julian Assange' T-Shirts (Poll)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 26 July 2021. Westwood was disenchanted with the direction that adoptees had taken punk in, many of them uninterested in punk's political values, viewing the style of the movement as a marketing opportunity instead of a medium for radical change; with the dissolution of the Sex Pistols, Westwood's inspiration for her eponymous line shifted instead to the 18th century. [24] Fashion collections [ edit ] Vivienne receives an award for Fashion Designer of the Year for two years in a row in 1990 and 1991 by the British Fashion Council.

Marion Cotillard in Vivienne Westwood – Chopard Lunch". redcarpet-fashionawards.com. 17 May 2013 . Retrieved 21 July 2014. Vivienne is gone and the world is already a less interesting place," tweeted Chrissie Hynde, the frontwoman of the Pretenders and another former employee. Westwood, by then in her forties, began to slowly forge her own path in fashion, eventually separating from McLaren in the early 1980s. Vivienne Westwood, iconic fashion designer, dies at 81". CBS News. 29 December 2022 . Retrieved 29 December 2022.

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McDuffee, Allen (30 December 2022). "Inside Vivienne Westwood And Malcolm McLaren's Abusive Relationship". grunge.com . Retrieved 31 December 2022. Erotic Zones, Spring-Summer 1995 – Extreme silhouettes. – Women as heroic figures. – Reminding audiences of the power of female sexuality. – ‘Cul cage’ wire bustle was created by Andreas Kronthaler’s father. Dua Lipa's Custom Vivienne Westwood Brit Awards Looks Are A Riotous Ode To Britishness". vogue.co.uk. Archived from the original on 14 January 2023 . Retrieved 14 January 2023.

In 2014, Westwood bought a controlling interest in the equity crowdfunding platform Trillion Fund, which was dissolved in 2019. [66] Moet & Chandon Fashion Tribute honours Vivienne Westwood as the first fashion designer to have a solo exhibition at the V&A. In 1958, her family moved to Harrow, Greater London. Westwood took a jewelry and silversmith course at the University of Westminster, then known as the Harrow Art School, [13] but left after one term, saying: "I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world". [14] After taking a job in a factory and studying at a teacher-training college, she became a primary-school teacher. During this period, she created her own jewelry, which she sold at a stall on Portobello Road. [11] Westwood's marriage to Derek ended after she met Malcolm McLaren. Westwood and McLaren moved to Thurleigh Court in Balham, where their son Joseph Corré was born in 1967. [16] Westwood continued to teach until 1971 and also created clothes which McLaren designed. McLaren became manager of the punk band the Sex Pistols, and subsequently the two garnered attention as the band wore Westwood's and McLaren's designs. [17] Punk era [ edit ] AnOther (30 December 2022). "The Many Lives of Vivienne Westwood's Worlds End Shop". AnOther . Retrieved 17 July 2023.Vivienne Westwood and her husband and fellow designer Andreas Kronthaler at Paris Fashion Week in 2013. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Vivienne Westwood's Climate Revolution Charter: A Critique". Eluxe Magazine. 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014 . Retrieved 2 August 2013. At the age of 17, Westwood's family moved to Harrow in the country of Middlesex, where the future fashion icon found work at a local factory and eventually enrolled at a teacher training school.