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Vivienne Westwood, British fashion designer, businesswoman, icon, was born in Derbyshire on 8th April 1941. Given the birthname Vivienne Isabel Swire she was the daughter of storekeeper Gordan Swire and Dora Swire.

At the age of 17, Vivienne and her family moved to Harrow, London. She enrolled at the Harrow School of Art, taking a course in fashion and silversmithing. However, at a loss at how a working class girl like herself could make a living in the art world, she left after completing only a term . She then got a job as a primary school teacher, keeping up her interest in fashion by creating her own jewellery during this period and selling it at a stall on Portobello Road.

In 1961, she met Derek Westwood, they then married on July 21st 1962 with Vivienne making her own wedding dress for the ceremony. Two years later, she gave birth to a son, Ben Westwood. read more

A few years later she then met Malcolm McLaren and moved to a council flat in Clapham. Westwood continued to teach until 1971 when Mclaren opened up a boutique called ''Let it Rock'' at 430 Kings Road. Vivienne had been making Teddy Boy clothes for McLaren with both of them uninspired by the hippie fashion movement, she was producing 1950's clothing inspired by the rebellion and 50's music and memorabilia. By 1972 her interests had switched to biker clothing, zips and leather. The shop was subsequently re-branded with a skull and crossbones and renamed Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die.

Westwood and McLaren then began to design t-shirts with provocative messages leading to their prosecution under the obscenity laws; their reaction to this was to re-brand the shop again and produce even more hard core images. By 1974 the shop had been renamed Sex.

In 1976 the Sex Pistols (managed by McLaren) went to number one with God Save the Queen and were refused air time by the BBC. The shop reopened as Seditionaires transforming the obscure fetishism of the straps and zips into fashion and inspiring a D.I.Y. aesthetic. The media dubbed it ‘Punk Rock’. In 1980, after the collapse of the Sex Pistols and the absorption of Punk that into the mainstream, the shop was refitted and renamed Worlds End, the name still in use today.

The Pirate Collection of 1981 was Westwood and McLaren’s first catwalk show. The inspiration for this was Native Americans, ethnic cuts and historical baggy dress. This offered a romantic look which burst onto the London fashion scene and ensured this collection's place in history. At this important point in her career, Vivienne developed ethnic cutting techniques which are based on rectangles. Clothes always have a dynamic with the body. She continues to mix this in with historical cuts.

After the AW 1982-83 Buffalo Girls collection, inspired by Peruvian women wearing bowler hats and full skirts, dancing with their babies tied on their back, her collaboration with Malcolm McLaren ended.

The period from 1988-1992 were known as the Pagan Years. During this period Vivienne’s inspiration changed from punks and ragamuffins to ‘Tatler’ girls wearing clothes that parodied the upper class.

Fresh from winning British Designer of the Year the previous two years, in 1992 Vivienne Westwood was awarded an O.B.E. Westwood then started her new range which ran from 1993-99, Anglomania, using tartan suits and ball gowns. Vivienne believes that fashion is a combination and exchange of ideas between France and England; “On the English side we have tailoring and an easy charm, on the French side that solidity of design and proportion that comes from never being satisfied because something can always be done to make it better, more refined.”

From the year 2000 onwards Westwood has been producing the Exploration line. Beginning to put historicism to one side, Westwood returned to a more asexual cut, exploring the natural dynamic of the fabric.

She has had one successful collaboration after another, a popular one is her Anglomania x Lee collaboration. Teaming up with the expert denim brand she designs wearable and unique denim and everyday wear with the durability and practicality expected of Lee jeans.

Her mens Autumn/Winter 2011 collection is vibrant and busy with patterns and challenging colour schemes. In the words of Vivienne Westwood herself; ''There’s lots of broken up stuff, lots and lots o glowing colour and flashing things. Lots of checks and stripes. Cut up graphics and chopped up patterns....Somehow it’s very global, it’s got a global feeling to it. It’s like if the world was a smashed glass, full of broken bits…''

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