This June, Christie’s London will be presenting a live and online auction of more than 200 lots from the personal wardrobe of U.K. fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. Westwood was born in Cheshire in ...
Provocative fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, who created the iconic, envelope-pushing looks of Britain’s punk and New Romantic movements in the 1970s and ‘80s, has died “peacefully and surrounded ...
LONDON — Dame Vivienne Westwood, who was responsible for ushering in the punk fashion phenomenon of the ’70s and whose subsequent designs from pirates to crinolines also had major influence through ...
With some help from the Sex Pistols, British youths hungry for anarchy, and influences including Teddy Boy subculture and fetishists, Vivienne Westwood helped develop punk as a style, an ethos and a ...
LONDON, Dec 29 (Reuters) - 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 ...
THE WEEK: Vivienne Westwood obituary: remembering the ‘high priestess of punk fashion’
A fashion designer, revolutionary and “emblem of English eccentricity”, Vivienne Westwood exploded onto the scene in the mid-1970s as “one of the chief progenitors of the punk aesthetic”, said The ...
The New York Times: Vivienne Westwood, 81, Dies; Brought Provocative Punk Style to High Fashion
The London shop she ran with Malcolm McLaren defined an era. “I don’t think punk would have happened,” Chrissie Hynde said, “without Vivienne and Malcolm.” By Marisa Meltzer Vivienne Westwood, the ...