The fashion designer is considered the co-founder of the punk style in high fashion, along with designer Malcolm McLaren.
The British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood died in England at the age of 81. This was announced on Thursday, December 29, by the BBC, and also stated on the official page of the fashion designer on Instagram.
“Vivien continued to do what she loved until the last moment – designing, creating, writing books and changing the world for the better. She lived an amazing life. Her innovations and influence over the past 60 year has been huge and will continue in the future,” the message said.
As mentioned, Westrud spent the last minutes of her life surrounded by family in South London.
Westwood is considered the founder of the punk style in high fashion. Westwood is also known as an activist, bringing to the podium topics that are important to her, such as climate change.
Born in 1941 under the surname Swire, she worked as a school teacher and later as a seamstress. Together with fashion designer Malcolm McLaren, they opened the Let It Rock clothing store (1971), and a year later they renamed it Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die, after which they changed the emphasis to the style of rocker-biker clothing.
In 1981, Vivienne Westwood created her own clothing brand, Vivienne Westwood.
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