Vivienne Westwood

English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, whose work popularized British punk aesthetics, died Dec. 29, 2022, in a London suburb.

As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections around the world. The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York.

Vivienne Westwood, the English fashion designer who helped to popularize punk style, has died. She was 81.

Members of bands including Siouxsie and the Banshees and the Slits were influenced by her fashion, and Viv Albertine of the Slits wrote in her memoir, “Vivienne and Malcolm use clothes to shock, irritate and provoke a reaction but also to inspire change. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw character wore one of Westwood’s wedding dress creations in the film version of “Sex and the City.” “Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London,” a post on her official Twitter page reads.

Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.

She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but over time seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. When she wanted to sell 1950s-style clothes at her first shop, she found old clothes in markets and took them apart to understand the cut and construction. "Vivienne is gone and the world is already a less interesting place. She met McLaren in the 1960s while working as a primary school teacher after separating from her first husband, Derek Westwood. "They gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past," he said. But Westwood was able to make the transition from punk to haute couture without missing a beat, keeping her career going without stooping to self-caricature. When asked if she regretted the swastika design in a 2009 interview with Time magazine, Westwood said no. It's very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled. As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections throughout the world. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York. The name Westwood became synonymous with style and attitude even as she shifted focus from year to year.

Westwood died Thursday "peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London," a post shared on her Instagram page by her brand said. "Vivienne ...

According to her brand's website, Westwood supported hundreds of causes, NGOs, grassroots charities and campaigns over the last 20 years. Next year, The Vivienne Foundation, a not-for-profit company, will officially launch to honor Westwood's life, design and activism. As part of the New Romantic movement, Westwood and McLaren staged their first ready-to-wear collection in 1981 called "Pirates," which was inspired by McLaren's fascination with the 1980 film, "The Island," and Westwood's interest in silhouettes and portraits of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the 1980s into the early '90s, Westwood transitioned into a period that she called "New Romantic" and "The Pagan Years," with clothes that parodied the upper class. Her innovation and impact over the last 60 years has been immense and will continue into the future." "Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until her last moment, designing, working on her art, writing her book, and changing the world for the better," according to the Instagram caption alongside a photo of Westwood.

Westwood's fashion career began in the 1970s with the punk explosion, when her radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm.

She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but over time seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. "They gave the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past," he said. But Westwood was able to make the transition from punk to haute couture without missing a beat, keeping her career going without stooping to self-caricature. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting global warming, warning of planetary doom if climate change was not controlled. As her stature grew, she seemed to transcend fashion, with her designs shown in museum collections throughout the world. But she went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York.

Su casa de moda comunicó este jueves que la diseñadora falleció "en paz y rodeada" de su familia en Clapham, en el sur de Londres.

Se volvió a casar, esta vez con un estudiante de moda austriaco que tenía la mitad de su edad. No fue fácil; a veces estuvo cerca de la bancarrota. Si a Su Majestad no le hizo gracia, no lo demostró y Westwood regresó al palacio unos años después. Westwood abrió una tienda en Kings Road, en Londres, inspirada en la estética que los Pistols hicieron famosa. El punk, creía sinceramente, era más que una moda. Estaba divirtiéndose, sintiéndose como una "princesa de otro planeta". En el interior, el personal era intimidante. Sus padres eran de clase trabajadora y la animaron a hacer manualidades, lo cual hizo con entusiasmo. Westwood hizo su propio vestido de novia, así como las joyas que lució. Su familia se mudó al norte de Londres en 1958. De niña tenía una confianza en sí misma envidiable, creyéndose una artesana excepcional. Pero su objetivo era cambiar las reglas, destruir las convenciones y hacer un mundo mejor.

"Tengo una perversidad incorporada", dijo Westwood según el trascendente "England's Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock" de Jon Savage, "una especie de ...

La Fundación Vivienne, una empresa sin fines de lucro fundada por Westwood, sus hijos y su nieta a fines de 2022, se lanzará oficialmente el próximo año. Westwood era la única mujer, la única británica y la única diseñadora de su lista que aún no era una marca multimillonaria. Trabajaron como co-diseñadores, antes de que él se hiciera cargo de su línea de prêt-à-porter en 2016. "Era mesiánica con el punk, viendo si se podía poner un rayo en el sistema de alguna manera". Para el mundo de la moda, fue un personaje querido que impulsó y empujó los límites de la industria hasta su muerte. McLaren dirigía los Sex Pistols y desde una tienda en King's Road de Londres, Westwood ayudó a desarrollar una gramática visual para el movimiento punk.

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.”

Their aggressively delivered songs, with names like “Anarchy in the U.K.” and “God Save the Queen,” were a soundtrack to the nihilism of Britain in the 1970s. And I blamed the older generation for what was going on too,” she added, “so we wouldn’t even accept their taboos. “It was the hippies who taught my generation about politics, and that’s what I cared about — the world being so corrupt and mismanaged, people suffering, wars, all these terrible things.”… And the look was important.” They saw the store as a laboratory and a salon. In a memoir published in 2014 and simply called “Vivienne Westwood,” Ms. McLaren, an art school dropout who was inspired by the theater of the absurd as championed by the French Situationists, could be controversial; they once included swastikas in their designs. She was quoted in Ms. In shaping the look of the era, Ms. “It’s not about fashion, you see,” she wrote. She’s very focused on the English tradition of tailoring.” The business, which had a pink vinyl sign out front, was an unconventional one, selling fetish wear and fashions inspired by the Teddy Boy look of the 1950s.

También hizo campaña a favor de la liberación del periodista Julian Assange mientras estaba refugiado en la embajada de Ecuador en Londres para evitar ser ...

Hemos estado trabajando hasta el final y ella me ha dado muchas cosas para seguir adelante. Su marido y socio creativo Andreas Kronthaler, dijo hoy: “seguiré con Vivienne en mi corazón. La creadora británica se hizo famosa por sus controvertidos estilos punk en la década de 1970 y pasó a vestir a algunas de las figuras más importantes de la moda.

Art, Anarchy and the Avant-Garde · Sex Pistols · Johnny Rotten in 1976 · Punk Fashions · Boy Geroge at Vivienne Westwood Tribute Event in 1998 · Paris Fashion Week ...

LONDRES (AP) — Vivienne Westwood, diseñadora de modas que fue clave en el surgimiento del movimiento punk, falleció el jueves. Tenía 81 años de edad.

Nacida con el nombre Vivienne Isabel Swire el 8 de abril de 1941 en la localidad inglesa de Glossop, en las Midlands, Westwood creció en una época de ...

"Y la otra cosa que también deberías saber sobre el punk: era una explosión total". Pero, siempre dispuesta a escandalizar, Westwood se presentó en el Palacio de Buckingham sin ropa interior, situación mostró a los fotógrafos con un revelador giro de su falda. El mundo necesita gente como Vivienne para hacer un cambio a mejor", dijo su firma de moda en Twitter.

Westwood, who was also awarded damehood by the late Queen Elizabeth II, was born April 8, 1941.

Westwood's fashion house announced her death on social media platforms. The influential designer played a key role in the punk movement.

When she wanted to sell 1950s-style clothes at her first shop, she found old clothes in markets and took them apart to understand the cut and construction. She approached her work with gusto in her early years, but later seemed to tire of the clamor and buzz. She even [designed the dress Stella Moris wore when she married Assange](https://apnews.com/article/europe-lifestyle-london-weddings-julian-assange-60936be569eae0d6d2f929b4a507f49d) this past March at a London prison. The rebel eventually became one of its most celebrated stars, known for reinterpreting opulent dresses from the past and often finding inspiration in 18th century paintings. When asked if she regretted the swastika in a [2009 interview with Time magazine,](https://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1871537,00.html) Westwood said no. The first, fashion photographer Ben Westwood, was her son with Derek Westwood. “Fashion can be so boring,” she told The Associated Press after unveiling one of her new collections at a 2010 show. That breakthrough is credited with taking Westwood in a more traditional direction, showing her interest in incorporating historical British designs into contemporary clothes. But still she spoke out against consumerism and conspicuous consumption, even urging people not to buy her expensive, beautifully made clothes. It’s very much rooted in the English tradition of pastiche and irony and satire. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s and became an outspoken advocate of fighting climate change, In her punk days, Westwood’s clothes were often intentionally shocking: T-shirts decorated with drawings of naked boys and “bondage pants” with sadomasochistic overtones were standard fare in her popular London shops.

Empezó como la "emperatriz del punk" y terminó convirtiéndose en la gran estrella de la moda británica. Vivienne Westwood falleció este jueves a los 81 años ...

The pioneer who brought punk-inspired creations to the mainstream has died aged 81.

As well as climate change, Westwood became a vocal supporter for the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act. I am grateful for the moments I got to share with you and Andreas." They shot to fame in 1976 wearing Westwood and McLaren's designs. The Victoria and Albert Museum, which houses some of her works, described Westwood as a "true revolutionary and rebellious force in fashion". Singer Boy George, who first met Westwood in the early 1980s, called her "great and inspiring" and "without question she is the undisputed Queen of British fashion". Westwood made her name with her controversial punk and new wave styles in the 1970s and went on to dress some of the biggest stars in fashion.

Giró su falda, sin culottes, al posar para fotógrafos después de recibir la Orden del Imperio Británico de manos de la reina Isabel en 1992. En abril de 1989, ...

En un comunicado emitido con el anuncio de su muerte, Kronthaler dijo: “Continuaré con Vivienne en mi corazón. La Fundación Vivienne, una empresa sin fines de lucro fundada por Westwood, sus hijos y su nieta a fines de 2022, se lanzará oficialmente el próximo año. Westwood era la única mujer, la única británica y la única diseñadora de su lista que aún no era una marca multimillonaria. Trabajaron como co-diseñadores, antes de que él se hiciera cargo de su línea de prêt-à-porter en 2016. Westwood fue una defensora abierto del planeta, a menudo promoviendo la calidad sobre la cantidad cuando se trataba de consumo de moda. En 1992, Westwood se casó con un estudiante de diseño austriaco, Andreas Kronthaler, 25 años menor que ella. “Era mesiánica con el punk, viendo si se podía poner un rayo en el sistema de alguna manera”. Para el mundo de la moda, fue un personaje querido que impulsó y empujó los límites de la industria hasta su muerte. McLaren dirigía los Sex Pistols y desde una tienda en King’s Road de Londres, Westwood ayudó a desarrollar una gramática visual para el movimiento punk. En su opinión, ella era una de las seis diseñadoras más influyentes del siglo XX, junto con Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Giorgio Armani, Christian Lacroix y Emanuel Ungaro. Su madre trabajaba como tejedora en las fábricas de algodón locales; su padre provenía de una familia de zapateros. (CNN) ––Vivienne Westwood, diseñadora británica e ícono de la moda, murió a los 81 años.

Westwood, nacida en Inglaterra, fue pionera en el movimiento punk con sus conjuntos extravagantes y diseños provocativos. Westwood se convirtió en una figura ...

She helped clothe the 1970s punk movement and remained a style icon for half a century.

Ms. “My fashion advice,” she told In 2008, a Westwood wedding dress became a centerpiece of the “Sex and the City” movie when Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw, decides against a Vera Wang dress in favor of Ms. Westwood soon dissolved her partnership with McLaren, and went on to create designs including the mini-crini, a shortened version of the Victorian crinoline, and a lightweight corset designed to be worn on the outside of an outfit, which helped spark a ’90s trend toward underwear as outerwear. The name appeared in bloated pink letters above the door. Her mother, a seamstress who made her own clothes, favored standard fare for her three children; Ms. Her marriage to Derek Westwood, a dance hall manager, ended in divorce, and in the mid-1960s she began a relationship with McLaren, with whom she collaborated as a designer. Westwood — who was later named a Dame Commander — shocked photographers by twirling to show off her outfit, a tailored skirt suit that she wore with sheer tights but no underwear. “I was messianic about punk,” she later recalled, “seeing if one could put a spoke in the system in some way.” Throughout her career she linked fashion to politics, leveraging her fame to promote environmental causes, nuclear disarmament, vegetarianism and efforts to fight climate change. Westwood grew from an enfant terrible into a grand dame of the fashion world, bursting onto the London scene in the 1970s when she helped dress punk rockers like the Sex Pistols with leather jackets, ripped shirts and safety pins. Vivienne Westwood, the provocative British fashion designer who endured for more than half a century as a style icon and environmental activist, helping clothe the 1970s punk movement before dressing supermodels on the runways of Paris and Milan, died Dec.

From Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington, to Marc Jacobs and Donatella Versace, the most moving tributes from the fashion world to Vivienne Westwood.

I will forever be grateful to have been in your orbit, because to me and most in fashion—and in humanity—you, Vivienne, were the sun. She was kind, normal, and messianic, all uniquely rolled into one visionary force who had not one jot of grandeur about her incredible standing as one of the most influential designers in the world. From the first day I met you to the last day I saw you, you made me smile, listen, learn and love more than the day before. She was one of the very greatest British women, always ahead of her time. Thereon, she heroically devoted herself to standing up for civilized critical and radical thinking, constantly using her position in fashion to speak out about the urgency of environmental destruction. Thank you, Vivienne, for staying so true to your principles and values and most importantly, for leading the way with spunk and with humor.” This talented and brilliant lady was so unique and so punk in all the ways punk should be. Vivienne invented historic fashion design moments that woke us all up and shook the industry to its core. Vivienne once faxed me a handwritten letter inviting me to participate in one of her shows, as one did in the early ’90s. To be able to visit with you recently I feel blessed and will carry that memory in my heart always. You never failed to surprise and to shock. And your beautiful love story with Andreas, one we’d read about in fairy tales, that I was able to witness for decades.

Vivienne Westwood, the acclaimed British fashion designer credited with popularizing punk in the mainstream fashion industry, has died at age 81.

Her use of fashion as a means of communicating empowerment among women stuck, echoing in prevailing and recurring trends more than three decades later. “A young girl wearing a rubber skirt to the office is going to produce a reaction. “Vivienne does, and others follow.” I’d say Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren invented the British look of punk.” “I would say if it wasn’t for those two designers and the Sex store on the King’s Road, then there would be no Sex Pistols. Tao gives you a feeling that you belong to the cosmos and gives purpose to your life; it gives you such a sense of identity and strength to know you’re living the life you can live and therefore ought to be living: make full use of your character and full use of your life on earth.”

Vivienne Westwood helped create the punk movement as we know it with her provocative designs,. Credit: Andy Hosie/Mirrorpix/Getty ...

[CBS Sunday Morning](https://youtu.be/PVmPQh79Bto)and was named Dame Commander of the British Empire. Contemporary designers are still inspired by the punk scene Westwood helped shape, drawing on the "distressed" look and incorporating tartan and safety pins. Westwood went on to become one of the UK's most celebrated designers, beloved by the mainstream industry she once wanted to repel. "But for somebody my age to think that it's got any credibility in any way -- no it hasn't." It's where Pistols guitarist Steve Jones and friends hung out and where the band [auditioned a green-haired outcast](https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/an-illustrated-history-of-the-sex-pistols-40617/)named John Lydon, better known to many as Johnny Rotten, as its lead singer. Westwood said years later that she didn't want to be a designer but made clothes out of necessity in her teens and when she was asked by McLaren to outfit the new band he was managing, the Sex Pistols. But when the mainstream got its hands on Westwood's punk designs, many of them were uninterested in punk's radical political underpinnings. Disenchanted, Westwood built her eponymous line and split from McLaren. it was just a fashion that became a marketing opportunity for people," she said. When the Sex Pistols' single "God Save the Queen" was banned from British radio, Westwood She was influenced by leather-clad bikers and But before she dressed supermodels and constructed romantic corsets, she ripped up fashion's rule book for a new generation of disillusioned changemakers.

Costume designer Jenny Beavan could never afford Vivienne Westwood's designs. But her punk aesthetic, and the world she inhabited, still left a mark.

Because I was quite a nervous and I think I was probably dressed in a rather sober and conventional way in those days. And somehow the whole time, I was never that interested in fashion. ... I’m not sure I ever owned one [laughs], because in those days I was working in theater and it was terribly badly paid. But I do remember the shops very well. And I got really bonded to Dior, doing “Mrs. ... I had no idea she was ill. In terms of “Cruella,” what I had to do really was to find “Cruella’s” look. I wanted to be a theater designer and do sets and, you know, create worlds. But in truth, I had enormous fondness for her and once had the enormous delight of sitting next to her and [widower] Andreas Kronthaler at [a] birthday party celebration. I think it’s because it was so radical. But I think for me, with “Cruella,” it was more the punk aspect of it. And I didn’t think that was right anyhow, because the whole thing of storytelling.

La decana provocativa de la moda británica combinó el estilo punk con la ostentación de la alta costura.

Aparece aquí con las modelos Kate Moss y Alice Dellal en 2015. No perdió su rasgo poco ortodoxo cuando se pasó al mundo de los desfiles y las colecciones de prêt-à-porter. "Y otra cosa que también debes saber sobre el punk: fue un estallido total".

Su marido y socio creativo Andreas Kronthaler, dijo hoy: “seguiré con Vivienne en mi corazón. Hemos estado trabajando hasta el final y ella me ha dado muchas ...

Su marido y socio creativo Andreas Kronthaler, dijo hoy: “seguiré con Vivienne en mi corazón. La creadora británica se hizo famosa por sus controvertidos estilos punk en la década de 1970 y pasó a vestir a algunas de las figuras más importantes de la moda. Hemos estado trabajando hasta el final y ella me ha dado muchas cosas para seguir adelante.