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Legendary British designer and activist Vivienne Westwood died in the present day (December 29) on the age of 81, it has been confirmed.

“Vivienne Westwood died in the present day, peacefully and surrounded by her household, in Clapham, South London,” a message posted on her official Twitter web page learn. “The world wants individuals like Vivienne to make a change for the higher.”

In an announcement emailed to press, Westwood’s husband and artistic accomplice Andreas Kronthaler stated: “I’ll proceed with Vivienne in my coronary heart. We’ve been working till the tip and he or she has given me loads of issues to get on with.”

Westwood was an integral a part of the British punk motion within the Nineteen Seventies, serving to to form the scene along with her clothes. Early in her profession, she made garments for SEX, the Chelsea boutique she ran with Malcolm McLaren. SEX was later renamed Seditionaries: Garments for Heroes and Westwood and went on to decorate Intercourse Pistols, whom McLaren managed.

Punk icon Jordan, who died earlier this 12 months, labored as a mannequin for Westwood and managed the store, whereas the likes of Siouxsie And The Banshees and Adam And The Ants musician Marco Pirroni, singer-songwriter and formative punk determine Gene October, and extra additionally frequented the shop.

Amongst her signature appears to be like on the time – lots of which appeared in her designs once more over the many years – have been ripped t-shirts, bondage, plaid patterns, mohair, rubber, provocative imagery and security pin elaborations. Westwood helped carry punk trend into the mainstream however maintained the rebellious angle that ran by means of her early designs all through her life.

Sex Pistols
Intercourse Pistols in 1978 CREDIT: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns

Within the early ‘80s, Westwood launched her personal model, designing garments which continued to subvert conformist society’s expectations. One in every of her first collections, launched in 1985, featured a “mini-crini” – a crinoline blended with a mini skirt to spotlight the then-growing liberation of girls’s sexuality.

Over her profession, the icon did every little thing from designing educational attire for London’s King’s Faculty and redesign uniforms for Virgin Atlantic flight crews. Her clothes have been worn by everybody from punks to royalty, fashions to Okay-pop stars and even sport characters – within the 2016 sport Closing Fantasy XV, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret wore a marriage gown designed by Westwood.

Her designs additionally appeared within the 2008 Intercourse And The Metropolis film, with Westwood designing a marriage gown for Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw. Nonetheless, the designer was important of the style that appeared within the movie, saying: “I assumed Intercourse And The Metropolis was purported to be about cutting-edge trend and there was nothing remotely memorable or fascinating about what I noticed.”

Lately, the designer turned a outstanding local weather change activist, creating the Local weather Revolution in 2012. She unveiled the initiative on the London Paralympics closing ceremony that 12 months.

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood CREDIT: Ki Worth/Getty Photos

“Capitalism is as corrupt as a rotten apple,” a manifesto Westwood wrote as a part of the Local weather Revolution learn. “It’s the financial system, silly! U settle for as a result of u assume there’s no various. However we’ve hope (conflict is fought 4 land + low cost labour). Change the financial system – NO MAN’S LAND. Begin by renting use of land, ocean + air – goal: sustainability + peace.”

Westwood additionally dedicated her trend home to decreasing its contributions to local weather change. In 2020, her spring/summer season assortment featured garments manufactured from natural cotton and pure flax, with thread that had been sourced from bushes grown in managed forests.

All through the years, Westwood remained an outspoken voice for points she believed in. IN 2005, she teamed up with the civil rights group Liberty to create a set of t-shirts and child put on with the slogan: “AM NOT A TERRORIST, please don’t arrest me.” The designer stated the marketing campaign defended habeas corpus.

She has additionally campaigned for the Marketing campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), devoted a trend assortment to activist and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, and used her 2012 London Vogue Week reveals to help Julian Assange and name for his launch. In 2020, she protested his potential extradition to the US outdoors the Previous Bailey, suspending herself in a large birdcage outdoors the court docket.

“I’m Julian Assange,” Westwood instructed the group gathered beneath her. “I’m the canary within the cage. If I die down the coal mine from toxic gasoline, that’s the sign for all of the miners to depart. However I’m half-poisoned already from authorities corruption of regulation and gaming of the authorized system by authorities.”

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood protesting Julian Assange’s potential extradition in 2020 CREDIT: Gareth Cattermole/Getty Photos

Earlier this 12 months, Westwood premiered the documentary Wake Up Punk, which charted the decline of punk by means of interviews with the designer and her two sons, Ben Westwood and Joe Corré.

Chatting with NME on the premiere, Westwood declared Oasis “spinoff” however praised Billie Eilish and Courtney Love. “I’m going to be speaking at Billie Eilish’s [upcoming six-day London climate event], which is actually nice,” she stated.

“From what I do know of her, I believe she’s nice. I simply heard a little bit of her voice and it sounds terrific. Oh and I used to be doing a photoshoot yesterday with Courtney Love. I’d by no means listened to her sing earlier than however my husband [designer] Andreas [Kronthaler] stated, ‘She’s actually good that girl, actually nice’, so I had a hear too.”

On punk, she added: “The factor about punk was that it was an incredible look. It was in all probability probably the most glamorous trend that’s ever existed and I believe that’s what we’ve to actually bear in mind. It was simply outrageously sensible and that’s that.”

Stars from throughout the leisure world have begun to pay tribute to Westwood following her loss of life. “you gave me the braveness to specific myself,” Yungblud wrote on Twitter. “you have been the rationale i left the home with the boldness to look the best way i did. heartbroken. thankyou for everythin, viv. RIP.”

Rubbish’s Shirley Manson referred to as the style icon “a hero of mine”, whereas The Pogues’ Spider Stacy stated he had “no phrases” following the information.

See extra tributes beneath.

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