As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Westwood was synonymous with 1970s punk rock
A eulogy and photograph is displayed in the window of the flagship Vivienne Westwood store in Mayfair, following the announcement of the British fashion designer's death in London, Britain, on December 30 2022. HENRY NICHOLLS/REUTERS
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. Together with the Sex Pistols’ manager, Malcolm McLaren, she defied the hippie trends of the time to sell rock’n’roll-inspired clothing.
A recycling mentality pervaded her work, and she repeatedly told fashionistas to “choose well” and “buy less”. From the late 1960s, she lived in a small flat in south London for some 30 years and cycled to work. After the Sex Pistols split, the two held their first catwalk show in 1981, presenting a “new romantic” look of African-style patterns, buccaneer trousers and sashes.
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