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Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. In 2022, Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the past 50 years.
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business · British fashion designer (1941–2022) · university teacher · fashion designer · businessperson · jewelry designer · activist · photographer · also Vivienne Westwood, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood, Westwood
Born 8 April 1941 · Died 29 December 2022 · Q158067
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I wished to show off my outfit by twirling the skirt. It did not occur to me that, as the photographers were practically on their knees, the result would be more glamorous than I expected,
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2026· 2 entries
“I wished to show off my outfit by twirling the skirt. It did not occur to me that, as the photographers were practically on their knees, the result would be more glamorous than I expected,”
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2025· 1 entry
The Vivienne Westwood website lists 102 store locations in 17 countries
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2022· 2 entries
Died 2022-12-29.
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Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the past 50 years
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2020· 1 entry
By British-Irish artist Josef O'Connor, to present a new video work on the Piccadilly Lights screen in Piccadilly Circus, London
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded European Cultural Award (2019).
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“I am investing in the Green Party because I believe it is in the best interests of our country and our economy”
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2018· 1 entry
A documentary film about Westwood, called Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, premiered
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2016· 1 entry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, acquired a Tits t-shirt, designed by McLaren and sold at Seditionaries between 1976 and 1980
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2015· 3 entries
“It is important to me that my business affairs are in line with my personal values. I am subject to UK tax on all of my income”
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“We Are The Revolution campaigning tour of English universities in such cities as Liverpool, Norwich, Brighton and Sheffield. On the eve of the tour, Westwood was excluded from appearing by the youth wing of the Green Party due to her avoidance of UK corporate tax, which contravened party policy on usage of off-shore tax havens. She later condemned this as”
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Said that she had restructured her corporate tax arrangements to try to align them with the Green Party's policy
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2014· 1 entry
Westwood bought a controlling interest in the equity crowdfunding platform Trillion Fund, which was dissolved in 2019
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2013· 2 entries
Wore a Westwood Couture pink and ivory striped dress at the Chopard lunch in Cannes
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Sustainable luxury fashion publication Eluxe Magazine accused Westwood of using the green movement as a marketing tool because some of Westwood's fashion and accessories lines are made in the People's Republic of China
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2012· 3 entries
Westwood was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt
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Used her appearances at London Fashion Week to push for Assange's release by presenting "I am Julian Assange" t-shirts
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Westwood was chosen as one of The New Elizabethans to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
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2011· 1 entry
Princess Eugenie wore three Westwood designs for the pre-wedding dinner, the wedding ceremony and the after-wedding party at the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
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2009· 1 entry
To HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for underestimating the value of her brand
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2008· 2 entries
Heriot-Watt University awarded Westwood an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters for her contribution to the industry and use of Scottish textiles
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The Westwood-designed academic dresses for King's College were unveiled
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2007· 3 entries
And in 2008 she designed 20 new academic gowns and hoods for King's students to wear at their graduation ceremonies
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Westwood was approached by the Chair of King's College London, Patricia Rawlings, to design an academic gown for the college after it had successfully petitioned the Privy Council for the right to award degrees
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That she had transferred her long-standing support for the Labour Party to the Conservatives, due to concerns about civil liberties and human rights
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2005· 1 entry
Awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded Royal Designer for Industry (2001).
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2000· 1 entry
Kronthaler convinced her to move into a Queen Anne style house in Clapham built in 1703
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Berliner Bär (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Westwood designed many of the colorful suits and outfits Duran Duran wore during their tour for The Wedding Album, as well as those that appeared in the three videos for that album: "Ordinary World", "Come Undone" and "T
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1992).
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1989· 1 entry
As a combination of two conflicting ideals – the crinoline, representing a "mythology of restriction and encumbrance in woman's dress", and the miniskirt, representing an "equally dubious mythology of liberation"
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1974· 1 entry
Westwood and McLaren's boutique was re-modelled, and reopened as Sex
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1972· 1 entry
Let It Rock was refashioned into Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, in homage to the death of James Dean
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1971· 1 entry
The first incarnation of Westwood and McLaren's boutique, early creations for the shop incorporated such influences reminiscent of the youth subculture fashions of the 1950s
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1962· 1 entry
Met Derek Westwood, an apprentice at the Hoover factory, in Harrow
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1958· 1 entry
Her family moved to Harrow, Greater London
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-04-08.
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