Vivienne Westwood, the rule-breaking fashion designer who brought the UK punk movement into the mainstream with her clothes, has died.and statementWestwood was 81 years old.
Born Vivian Isabel Swire on 8 April 1941 in Hollingworth, England, she began her jewelry business when her family moved to Harrow, Middlesex, taking a course in silversmithing at the University of Westminster. Disillusioned with the idea that a working-class girl could make a living from art, she left to start a factory job instead, making her own jewelry on the side before becoming an elementary school teacher. After marrying Hoover factory apprentice Derek Westwood in 1962, she gave birth to her first son, Benjamin Westwood. She gave birth to her second son, Joseph Colle, in 1967.
In 1971, Westwood quit his teaching job and worked full-time making clothing, with McLaren designing many looks. The couple opened a boutique specializing in revival clothing, but in 1974 he renamed it SEX and used his ripped t-shirts, plaid, integral elastic, mohair tops and safety pins as decorations. I have a set of rebellious clothes. — acted as a meeting space for key persons in the music scene at the time, including Sid Vicious, Suzie and the Banshees guitarist Marco Pironi, and pop group singer Mark Stewart, and took off. Shortly thereafter, when McLaren became the Sex Pistols’ manager, the band began wearing the couple’s designs, bringing British punk style into the mainstream and linking the two histories forever.
“It changed the way people looked,” Westwood said in an interview about her early punk outfit. of independence“I was a savior about punks and seeing if I could somehow get a spoke into the system. is not.”
In the 1980s, Westwood shifted her design focus from the punk scene to parodies of upper-class women. Westwood didn’t realize she was her fashion designer until she launched her official fashion collection Pirates in 1981. From there, she launched and began pushing the “Mini Crini,” which reinvented the Victorian crinoline as a mini skirt. At the boundaries of clothing as an expression of female sexuality. Later, Westwood designed her dresses for Kings College of London, Virgin she created flight attendant uniforms for Atlantic Airlines, Lunafreya her Knox her fleur-like videos of her game characters I mocked up a digital outfit. final fantasy xv.