Dame Vivienne Westwood, an icon of punk style who exploded onto the scene in the 1970s, was remembered this week at a memorial held at the 800-year-old Southwark Cathedral in South London
These heartfelt moments were interspersed with three musical performances. First, Austrian soprano Maria Ladurner performed Handel’s “How Beautiful Are the Feet.” She was dressed in a gargantuan corseted dove-gray gown one could best assume was a Westwood creation. Next, the tribute fell to Nick Cave, who gave an emotional rendition of his 1997 track “Into My Arms.
Helena Bonham Carter, wearing a tartan two-piece set and an oversize pearl-orb choker, confessed to having a “sinful” number of pieces by the designer and said she bought her first Westwood pirate shirt in the early ’80s. Describing why she liked Westwood’s work, Bonham Carter mentioned her singular approach in designing clothes for women with real curves, her intelligence, and her nuanced references.
Lastly, Cora Corré, Westwood’s granddaughter, in a sharp-shouldered Westwood blazer, explained how she worked closely with her grandmother to establish the Vivienne Foundation over the past few years, which Westwood wanted to set up to have a lasting legacy and impact. Corré recounted that when she asked her grandmother how she would describe herself, she had said, “An activist, a Taoist, a teacher,” then shrugged her shoulders and added, “a designer.
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