Vivienne Westwood, Britain's provocative dame of fashion, died on Thursday at the age of 81.
Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood talks to a journalist before the presentation of her 2011 Spring/Summer collection at the London Fashion Week September 19, 2010. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/ File Photo
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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