Thursday, December 29, 2022

Vivienne Westwood







Fashion Designer and Punk Icon Vivienne Westwood died today (December 29th) “peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London.” She was 81 years old.

Westwood authored, or co-authored, a number of books, including Fashion in Art: The Second Empire and Impressionism, Get A Life, and Catwalk. Vivienne Westwood Opus 2008, published in an edition of 900 copies, is a forty-four pound book that measures thirty five by twenty five inches. 

“My thing as a fashion designer is that I said buy less clothes. Keep wearing things that you’ve really chosen that you really love. That is status. It’s not that you have to keep consuming. A status symbol is a book.”

Westwood is pictured above with Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones, writer Alan Jones, Chrissie Hynde, and Pamela Rooke (who died in April of this year). 




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