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Fashion, sex and drag: Vivienne Westwood's queer legacy

I was 13 years old when I discovered Vivienne Westwood. The music came first. From the moment I heard the album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, I was hooked. Within a few months, I was spending my pocket money on a knock-off Westwood design – tartan bondage…

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TV tonight: an electrifying reminder of Vivienne Westwood’s legacy

Kate Moss celebrates the queen of fashion in this cracking documentary. Plus: say a prayer for Neil in Happy Valley. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Vivienne Westwood: Grande dame of British fashion

The maverick designer who dressed the Sex Pistols and shook up the fashion world later used her platform to advocate for human rights and sustainable living

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Vivienne Westwood: how the brand will maintain the spirit of transgression and rebellion after her death

The death of the English fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood at the age of 81 on December 29 2022, has not only moved the fashion industry, but the world. Through her designs and her activism, Westwood had a profound impact on fashion and culture.

The Conversation

When Vivienne Westwood met the Queen’s dressmaker

She was a punk icon, he was the Queen’s dressmaker. But the late Dame Vivienne Westwood and Sir Hardy Amies fashioned an unlikely bond.

Evening Standard

Nottingham's Vivienne Westwood store remains closed as floral tributes left outside

The stores are closed as a mark of respect to the fashion designer

Nottingham Post

Barry Egan: Vivienne Westwood was the fiery godmother of punk who railed against hypocrisy, fascism … and my own moronic question

In 1974, an unsuspecting customer walked into Vivienne Westwood clothes shop SEX on the King's Road in London. He told an assistant that the bondage leather trousers, swastika jackets with political slogans and rubber T-shirts with women's breasts on them were "weird."

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Vivienne Westwood looks defiant with a raised fist in final photo from before her death

Iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was photographed in one of her own designs in the final photo taken weeks before her death

Irish Mirror

Vivienne Westwood looks defiant with a raised fist in final photo from before her death

Iconic fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was photographed in one of her own designs in the final photo taken weeks before her death

Daily Mirror

The Westwood brand: cocky, brazen and resolutely independent

London (AFP) - Irreverent British designer Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday, succeeded in keeping her fashion house financially independent, even as others sought stock market listings or security within major luxury groups.

AFP

How Vivienne Westwood’s ‘radical’ work inspired ‘Cruella’s’ Oscar-winning looks

With the death of fashion designer Vivienne Westwood on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times’ entertainment and arts section immediately thought of her seismic impact on pop culture — through both the red-carpet looks that dressed some of Hollywood’s top stars and through the lasting imprint of her distinctive aesthetic. Among…

Los Angeles Times

Vivienne Westwood director named as fashion designer Jeff Banks after icon's death

Jeff Banks, 79, was appointed the role of director of Vivienne Westwood's fashion empire after she passed away on December 29. The fashion designer was a 'dear friend' of Vivienne and thanked her for her 'everlasting service'

Irish Mirror

Vivienne Westwood director named as fashion designer Jeff Banks after icon's death

Daily Mirror

Jeff Banks made director of Vivienne Westwood’s fashion company before her death

The late designer’s husband, Andreas Kronthaler, was also made a director and secretary of her property business.

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Jeff Banks made director of Vivienne Westwood’s fashion company before her death

Fellow fashion designer Jeff Banks was made a director of Dame Vivienne Westwood’s fashion company two weeks before her death.

Evening Standard

‘She was the best of Britain’: remembering Dame Vivienne Westwood, an icon of British fashion

The ever-irreverent British fashion designer has died at the age of 81. Maddy Mussen looks back at her life, work and iconoclastic spirit, according to those who knew her best

The Independent UK

Vivienne Westwood never stopped challenging the status quo

As the fashion industry mourns one of its mavericks, Olivia Petter reflects on the designer’s lasting legacy

Daily Mirror

Vivienne Westwood went knickerless to get OBE from palace - and it 'amused the Queen'

Following the death of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood fans have been recalling some of her most 'iconic' moments - including the time she went knickerless to meet the Queen and flashed photographers outside Buckingham Palace

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Irish Mirror

Vivienne Westwood went knickerless to get OBE from palace - and it 'amused the Queen'

Irish Mirror

Vivienne Westwood's husbands and kids - including son who torched £5million punk archive

Vivienne Westwood died at the age of 81 after a long and incredible career as one of Britain's most successful fashion designers. The so-called 'grandmother of punk's' private life was just as chaotic as her incredible creations

Daily Mirror

Vivienne Westwood's husbands and kids - including son who torched £5million punk archive

Nottingham Post

Nottingham Vivienne Westwood shop closed following designer's death

It is unclear when shops will be reopening

The Independent UK

From corsets to conservation: How Vivienne Westwood broke boundaries in fashion

The designer was known for her focus on the environment and subversion of gender norms.

Irish Independent

From corsets to conservation: How Vivienne Westwood broke boundaries in fashion

Few people disrupted fashion quite like Dame Vivienne Westwood, who has died aged 81.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Vivienne Westwood, Britain’s Provocative Dame of Fashion, Dead at 81

As the person who dressed the Sex Pistols, Vivienne Westwood, who died on Thursday at the age of 81, was synonymous with 1970s punk rock, a rebelliousness that remained the hallmark of an unapologetically political designer who became one of British fashion's biggest names. "Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and…

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