Westwood’s fashion career began with the 1970s punk explosion. She went on to enjoy a long career, with triumphant runway shows in London, Paris and New York.
| As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday at the age of 81, was synonymous with 1970s punk rock, a rebelliousness that remained the hallmark of an unapologetically political designer who became one of British fashion’s biggest names.
She dressed up as then-prime minister Margaret Thatcher for a magazine cover in 1989 and drove a white tank near the country home of a later British leader, David Cameron, to protest against fracking.The rebel was inducted into Britain’s establishment in 1992 by the Queen, who awarded her the Order of the British Empire medal. But, ever keen to shock, Westwood turned up at Buckingham Palace without underwear – a fact she proved to photographers by a revealing twirl of her skirt.
They used prints of swastikas, naked breasts and, perhaps most well-known, an image of the queen with a safety pin through her lips. Favourite items included sleeveless black T-shirts, studded, with zips, safety pins or bleached chicken bones.Fashion Designer Vivienne Westwood with cake smeared on her face, speaks as she joins supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for a picnic, in Parliament Square to mark his 50th birthday, in London, in 2021.
While she taught at a primary school, she met her first husband, Derek Westwood, marrying him in a homemade dress. Their son Ben was born in 1963, and the couple divorced in 1966.
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