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).
