Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81.
“I don’t, because we were just saying to the older generation, ‘We don’t accept your values or your taboos, and you’re all fascists,’” she responded.
Her runway shows were always the most chic events, drawing stars from the glittery world of film, music, and television who wanted to bask in Westwood’s reflected glory. But still she spoke out against consumerism and conspicuous consumption, even urging people not to buy her expensive, beautifully made clothes.
“It was not a very efficient way of making clothes, but it was a great way for me to build up my technique,” she told the magazine. The shop changed its name and focus several times, operating as “SEX” — Westwood and McLaren were fined in 1975 for an “indecent exhibition” there — and “World’s End” and “Seditionaries.”tweeted Chrissie HyndeWestwood moved into a fresh type of designing with her “Pirates” collection, exhibited in her first catwalk show in 1981.
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