Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood (2014)

Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI (8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022) was an English fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. She was linked with the Sex Pistols via Malcolm McLaren and their SEX boutique on Kings Road, Chelsea in London during the 1970s. She created many items of clothing, one of her best known being an unconformist punk wedding dress with punk rips and chains.

Quotes

• Get rid of those terrible jeans that everybody else wears. And wear something different for a change, so you don't just look like a clone.
  • Talking about her manifesto, on the Daily Mayo (25 April 2008)^{[specific citation needed]}