VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood  is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's boutique in the King's Road in London. She was the designer who often let her clothes speak for themselves, as independent designs and as her own statements of culture. This idea that she uses her clothing as a statement of her own is a motif consistent throughout her time as a designer. Although this is also a factor as to why she was ridiculed as a designer, it was such a strong proclamation to his and her designs that she remained this way within her collections. Famous for her designs that play with the codes of punk and Britishness, Vivienne Westwood is also renowned as a pioneer of sustainable clothing.

“Buy less, choose well, make it last.” Vivienne Westwood.