Vivienne Westwood, known for giving the punk movement its style, died on Dec. 29 at age 81.
Helena Bonham Carter delivered a eulogy for Westwood.Westwood's death was announced by her eponymous fashion house on social media last December. Her cause of death was not disclosed.
“Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until the last moment, designing, working on her art, writing her book, and changing the world for the better,” the statement said.for giving “the punk movement a look, a style, and it was so radical it broke from anything in the past,” according to Andrew Bolton, curator of The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of New York. She was also an activist and used her platform to raise awareness about climate change later in her life.
Guests arrived to the memorial at around 1:30 p.m. and were met with a brass band playing ABBA’s “Slipping Through My Fingers,” “The Sound of Music”s “Do-Re-Mi,” and “Memory” from “Cats,”The Cut reported that Westwood's husband, Andreas Kronthaler, told a story at the memorial about how they first met and had to hide their early romance as he was her pupil. Westwood’s son Joseph Corré talked about his mother's activism and her love of nature.
Bonham Carter said in her eulogy that she bought her first Westwood piece, a pirate shirt, in the early '80s, according toShe also said that the country should have a"national Vivienne Westwood day," adding that the designer was a"true feminist" who made clothes that always made her feel like a woman,
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