Dame Vivienne Westwood, the designer who galvanized British fashion, has died. She was 81.
Under the shared label World’s End, Westwood and McLaren showed their first notable collection, which they titled, in 1981. The partnership wouldn’t last the end of the decade, but Westwood’s impact only continued to grow.Time
magazine. She sold a t-shirt emblazoned with the face of Queen Elizabeth II with a safety pin through her lip, shocking and delighting street style fans. In 1992, the Queen awarded Westwood with the Order of the British Empire for her contributions to fashion. The designer wore a tailored skirt suit to the ceremony, the picture of ladylike composure—until she twirled for photographers and the swirl of her skirt revealed that she was only wearing pantyhose, not underwear, beneath the ensemble.
In 2006, Westwood was made a Dame for her contributions to British fashion, and she was named British Designer of the Year three times.
Above all, Westwood believed in the power of expression and intelligence, and viewed fashion as a visual grammar with which to do so. As she once wrote, “Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.”
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