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Vivienne Westwood, provocative British fashion designer, dies at 81
Her death was announced by her namesake fashion house, which did not cite a cause.
Ms. Westwood grew from an enfant terrible into a grand dame of the fashion world, bursting onto the London scene in the 1970s when she helped dress punk rockers like the Sex Pistols with leather jackets, ripped shirts and safety pins. She later moved into couture design, creating outfits that were exhibited in museums around the world, while experimenting with flamboyant pirate shirts and petticoats, tweed corsets and pinstripe tailoring.
Throughout her career she linked fashion to politics, leveraging her fame to promote environmental causes, nuclear disarmament, vegetarianism and efforts to fight climate change. She emblazoned her shirts, jackets and dresses with activist slogans — “Politicians R Criminals” and “We are not disposable” — and urged her audience to buy less, not more, unveiling a unisex line in 2017 with the hopes that men and women could share the same clothes, including capes and tutus.
“Unisex may sound like a joke, but, in fact, it’s all about styling and being able to dress however you like,” she told the New York Times that year at a London Fashion Week event. “Swapping clothes with your partner means you can buy less, choose well and really make them last.”
Ms. Westwood was initially known for presiding over a boutique on London’s King’s Road with Malcolm McLaren, who became the manager of the Sex Pistols. “I was messianic about punk,” she later recalled, “seeing if one could put a spoke in the system in some way.”
She maintained that anarchic sensibility long after she was embraced by the establishment, posing for the cover of Tatler magazine in 1989 in an Aquascutum suit that she said was intended for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Three years later, when Queen Elizabeth II awarded her the Order of the British Empire, Ms. Westwood — who was later named a Dame Commander — shocked photographers by twirling to show off her outfit, a tailored skirt suit that she wore with sheer tights but no underwear.
“I have an in-built perversity,” she said in an interview for the book “England’s Dreaming” by Jon Savage, “a kind of in-built clock which reacts against anything orthodox.”
Vivienne Isabel Swire was born in Glossop, an English town east of Manchester, on April 8, 1941. Her mother, a seamstress who made her own clothes, favored standard fare for her three children; Ms. Westwood said that she began to dabble in fashion when her mother allowed her to pick out her own clothes. She selected a tight skirt and heels.
Ms. Westwood briefly attended Harrow Art School and then went to a teacher’s training college, landing a job as a schoolteacher. Her marriage to Derek Westwood, a dance hall manager, ended in divorce, and in the mid-1960s she began a relationship with McLaren, with whom she collaborated as a designer.
Together they riffed on the slim-tie, gelled-hair fashion style of the 1950s “teddy boys,” while also drawing on biker culture and sadomasochistic imagery. Under the slogan “Clothes for Heroes,” they designed leather-and-zipper dresses and “bondage” shirts with sleeves that wrapped around like a straitjacket. One T-shirt showed Queen Elizabeth II with a safety pin piercing her lip.
Their shop cycled through several names, including Too Young to Die and Too Fast to Live, but the one that most caught the public’s attention was Sex. The name appeared in bloated pink letters above the door.
In 1981, they launched their first runway collection: gender-neutral clothes that evoked pirate imagery and 19th-century fashion. The style became part of the post-punk New Wave scene after it was adopted by pop stars Adam Ant and Boy George.
Ms. Westwood soon dissolved her partnership with McLaren, and went on to create designs including the mini-crini, a shortened version of the Victorian crinoline, and a lightweight corset designed to be worn on the outside of an outfit, which helped spark a ’90s trend toward underwear as outerwear. In recent decades, she used her name for an expanding array of retail partnerships, including teas sets, hats, jewelry and fragrances.
She opened her first U.S. boutique in Los Angeles in 2011.
Survivors include her husband of 30 years, Austrian designer Andreas Kronthaler; a son from her first marriage, erotic photographer Ben Westwood; and a son with McLaren, Joseph Corré, who co-founded the lingerie brand Agent Provocateur. Additional details on survivors were not immediately available.
In 2008, a Westwood wedding dress became a centerpiece of the “Sex and the City” movie when Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw, decides against a Vera Wang dress in favor of Ms. Westwood’s billowy silk-and-taffeta. Ms. Westwood was unimpressed with the rest of the clothes featured in the film, later saying: “I went to the premiere and left after 10 minutes.”
When it came to her own image, she often opted for relatively uncomplicated outfits to go with her distinctive bright-orange hair. “My fashion advice,” she told the Times in 2009, “is to have a flattering mirror at home and then forget about it.”
Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer and style icon, dies at 81
British fashion designer and style icon Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, at her home in London on Thursday, according to an official statement from her eponymous company.
To the media, she was “the high priestess of punk” and the “Queen of Extreme.” To the fashion world she was a beloved character who energized and pushed the boundaries of the industry until her death.
She twirled sans culottes for photographers after receiving her Order of the British Empire from the Queen in 1992. In April 1989, she made the front cover of Tatler magazine, dressed in an Aquascutum suit she said was intended for Margaret Thatcher.
Westwood, frankly, didn’t give a hoot. As the oldest of ingénues with periodically orange-tinted hair and alabaster complexion, she rose disgracefully to the revered status of British national treasure.
“I have an in-built perversity,” Westwood’s reported to have said, per Jon Savage’s seminal “England’s Dreaming: The Sex Pistols and Punk Rock,” “a kind of in-built clock which always reacts against anything orthodox.”
She was born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Derbyshire, England on April 8, 1941. Her mother worked as a weaver at local cotton mills; her father came from a family of shoemakers. She began making clothes for herself as a teenager.
After a term at Harrow Art School, she worked as a primary school teacher, and married a factory worker, Derek Westwood, in 1962.
But everything changed when she left her husband, and met Malcolm McLaren in 1965.
“I felt as if there were so many doors to open, and he had the key to all of them,” she told Newsweek in 2004.
It’s impossible to imagine 1970s Britain without their creative partnership. McLaren managed the Sex Pistols and from a shop on London’s King’s Road, Westwood helped develop a visual grammar for the punk movement.
“Sex Pistols” manager Malcolm McLaren with Vivienne Westwood outside Bow Street Magistrate Court in London. Credit: Bill Kennedy/Mirrorpix/Getty Images
The shop changed names — Let It Rock; Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die; Sex; Seditionaries — but you couldn’t escape its impact on the street.
“It changed the way people looked,” Westwood told Time magazine in 2012. “I was messianic about punk, seeing if one could put a spoke in the system in some way.”
Her clothes ranged from fetishistic bondage gear to massive platform shoes and slogan T-shirts. Seditionaries famously sold a t- shirt showing the Queen with a safety pin through the royal lip.
Westwood eventually moved on. In 1981, at 40, Westwood launched her first catwalk collection with McLaren. The gender neutral clothes evoked the golden age of piracy, highwaymen, dandies and buccaneers. Westwood studied old tailoring techniques and subverted them, an approach later imitated by other British designers like John Galliano and Alexander McQueen.
Over the course of the decade, Westwood drew inspiration eclectically from Keith Haring, “Blade Runner” and the French Foreign Legion.
She introduced the mini-crini (combining the tutu and Victorian crinoline), flesh-colored tights with modesty fig leaves and signature corsetry worn as outerwear; she designed frocks for women with breasts and hips (ask Nigella Lawson or Marion Cotillard, who both wore Westwood to dramatic affect); she would experiment with Harris tweed and tartan.
Vivianne Westwood takes a bow at the end of her Spring-Summer 2003 fashion show in Paris. Credit: Bassignac/Benainous/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
John Fairchild, then the all-powerful editor of Women’s Wear Daily, conferred his blessing in 1989. In his view, she was one of the six most influential designers of the 20th century, along with Yves Saint Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Giorgio Armani, Christian Lacroix and Emanuel Ungaro. Westwood was the only woman, the only Brit, and the only designer on his list who was not already a multi-million-dollar brand. (In 1989, she was still living in an ex-council flat in South London and was “virtually bankrupt,” according to Jane Mulvagh’s 1998 biography, “Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life.”)
Style writer Peter York summed her up in a 1990 documentary: “All the things that fuel her, and all the obsessions she builds her work around are typically British: The whole thing about class and sex, the particular obsession with the Queen. You couldn’t develop those anywhere else.”
Vivienne Westwood and her husband and fellow designer Andreas Kronthaler at Paris Fashion Week in 2013. Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
In 1992, Westwood married an Austrian design student, Andreas Kronthaler, 25 years her junior. They worked as co-designers, before he took over her ready-to-wear line in 2016. In a statement released with the announcement of her death Kronthaler said, “I will continue with Vivienne in my heart. We have been working until the end and she has given me plenty of things to get on with. Thank you darling.”
Westwood was an outspoken advocate for the planet, often promoting quality over quantity when it came to fashion consumption. For her Fall-Winter 2019/20 show at London Fashion Week, Westwood sent models, actors, and activists down the runway with political signs — one of which read “What’s good for the planet is good for the economy.”
The Vivienne Foundation, a not-for-profit company, founded by Westwood, her sons & granddaughter in late 2022, will officially launch next year. According to her spokespeople it will “honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne’s life, design and activism.”
Angelina Jolie is effortlessly chic for grocery run with daughter Vivienne, 13, in LA
Angelina Jolie was spotted stocking up on groceries at a Bristol Farms in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
The 46-year-old Academy Award-winner was joined on the errand run by her youngest daughter Vivienne, 13, who helped her carry bags out of the store.
Jolie looked ultra chic in an oversized black coat styled with a pair of black skinny jeans.
Stocking up: Angelina Jolie was spotted stocking up on groceries at a Bristol Farms in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
The Maleficent actress slipped her feet into a pair of black leather booties and toted her belongings in a purse resting in the crook of her arm.
Her brunette hair was worn down and she accessorized with a pair of tinted glasses.
Meanwhile, Vivienne looked comfortable in a white crewneck sweatshirt, shorts, and a pair of slip on Nike sneakers.
The mother-daughter duo carried several reusable bags filled with grocery items, while also carrying a pack of canned sparkling water.
Helping hand: The 46-year-old Academy Award-winner was joined on the errand run by her youngest daughter Vivienne, 13, who helped her carry bags out of the store
Minimalist: Her brunette hair was worn down and she accessorized with a pair of tinted glasses
Angelina shares Vivienne, as well as daughters Zahara, 17, Shiloh, 15, and sons Maddox, 20, Pax, 18, and Knox, 13, with ex husband Brad Pitt.
But regardless of having six kids to look after at her home in Los Angeles, Angelina has managed to find time to also work with teens around the world to better their education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
The Eternals star has been doing so in partnership with the Maddox Jolie Program which is overseen by her eldest son Maddox.
On Sunday the red carpet fixture shared a post to Instagram that detailed her recent work adding that she ‘loves’ to see young women excel.
Chic: The Maleficent actress slipped her feet into a pair of black leather booties and toted her belongings in a purse resting in the crook of her arm
The rumoured girlfriend of singer The Weeknd said she is very hands on with one student in particular.
‘I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator,’ began the ex of Brad Pitt.
‘She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future,’ added the Maleficent star.
ICT stands for Information and Communications Technology.
Good heart: Angelina Jolie has six kids to look after at her home in Los Angeles. But the Oscar-winning actress has managed to find time to also work with teens around the world to better their education. Seen in October in Italy
An inspiration: The rumoured girlfriend of singer The Weeknd said she is very hands on with one student in particular. ‘I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator,’ began the ex of Brad Pitt
Jolie then wrote that in late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired.
The MJP Foundation is dedicated to alleviating extreme rural poverty, protecting the environment and conserving wildlife in rural northwestern Cambodia.
Jolie first visited Cambodia in 2000 when she made the film Tomb Raider. She was struck by the beauty of the country and the warmth of the Cambodian people.
A year later she returned with the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). In 2003 she set-up the Maddox Jolie Program that is today the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP).
Doing well: Jolie then wrote that in late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired
The MJP Foundation is close to her heart: In 2003 she set-up the Maddox Jolie Program that is today the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP)
‘They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world,’ she wrote.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children, but students like these in Cambodia are ‘fighting to continue and finish their education,’ Angelina also shared.
‘I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other,’ she noted.
A woman helping women: ‘I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other,’ she noted
She then added a hashtag for Women In Science.
And she tagged Unesco’s Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM and the MJP Foundation.
Meanwhile her ex Pitt is set to reopen the famed Miraval recording studio at his French winery.
The 57-year-old Hollywood star has partnered up with record producer Damien Quintard on the renovation project, and it sounds like the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star could break out into music.
The 30-year-old French studio wizard – who has worked with Brian Eno – told PEOPLE: ‘It was an intense moment where we just talked and talked about sound.
Her brood: Angelina Jolie has six kids to look after. (L-R) Shiloh, Zahara, Jolie, Vivienne, Maddox and Knox attend the screening of Eternals in London in October
Out with her mini me: Jolie and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt seen attending The Eternals – UK film premiere afterparty in October
‘I was amazed at how sensitive and precise he was in his analysis of music.’
The recording space is inside Chateau Miraval, the estate Brad and his ex-wife Jolie purchased in 2012 for an estimated $60 million, and the venue for their 2014 wedding.
Long before then, between the 1970s and 1990s, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Rammstein, Sting, Muse and more frequented the popular studio.
It has sat unused for a some time, and as part of the renovations, Brad and Damien are designing their very own mixing desk.
Damien added how the studio has a ‘redefined a remarkable natural reverb so we can record voices or instruments anywhere in the studio. It really is a space where you can produce anything from pop and rock, to hip-hop and classical records.’
Music base: Meanwhile her ex Pitt is set to reopen the famed Miraval recording studio at his French winery. The 57-year-old Hollywood star has partnered up with record producer Damien Quintard on the renovation project
The past: Pitt and Jolie attend the premiere of Changeling in 2008 in New York City
Artists are able to stay in a tower adjoined to the studio and there is also a swimming pool on the sprawling estate.
Meanwhile, it was just revealed that Brad and Lewis Hamilton are working on a new racing movie.
The Fight Club star and the 36-year-old Formula One driver have joined forces for a new film, which will star Brad and be directed by ‘Top Gun: Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski.
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and screenwriter Ehren Kruger are also involved in the untitled project, which is the subject of a bidding war between Paramount, MGM, Sony, Universal, Netflix, Apple, Amazon and Disney, according to The Hollywood Reporter.