Fashion deser Dame Vivienne Westwood dead at 81 



By Jamie Phillips For Mailonline

Published: 16:18 EST, 29 December 2022 sixteen:fifty 2 EST, 29 December 2022

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Famed benignant dressmaker Dame Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. 

Ms Westwood died peacefully surrounded by her ain household successful Clapham, South London, nowadays, her representatives said successful a declaration.

The eighty one-year-antique's hubby and originative companion Andreas Kronthaler stated: 'I volition clasp with Vivienne successful my coronary heart. 

'We person been moving until the cease and she has fixed maine masses of factors to get connected with. Thank you darling.'

Famed benignant deser Dame Vivienne (pictured) died peacefully surrounded by mode of household astatine her home successful Clapham

Vivenne Westwood walks the runway astatine the Vivenne Westwood show each done the London Fashion Week Men's June 2017 collections

The pioneering manner deser made a sanction for herself connected the manner country wrong the Seventies, unneurotic with her androgynous dess, slogan t-shirts and irreverent mind-set person to the presumption quo. 

Tributes person speedy flooded successful for Ms Westwood from heartbroken enthusiasts connected societal media.

A tweet published from her ain relationship pursuing her demise study: 'The satellite needs humans similar Vivienne to marque a commercialized for the higher.'

TV presenter Jonathan Ross go galore of the quality beings paying tribute to Dame Vivienne Westwood pursuing her demise aged eighty one.

He tweeted: 'RIP the splendid Vivienne Westwood. Unique. Brilliant. Uncompromising. Thanks Viv x.'

Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan delivered: 'A bittersweet day, Vivienne Westwood became and could stay a towering fig successful British style.

'Her punk benignant rewrote the regularisation of thumb e publication wrong the Seventies and turned into wide sought aft for the mode she stayed genuine to her idiosyncratic values each done her lifestyles.'

Westwood walks the runway astatine immoderate signifier successful the Vivienne Westwood show arsenic a portion of the Paris Fashion Week successful March 2014

Jordan, and Simon Barker, aka Six, modelling bondage cogwheel from the Seditionaries boutique connected King's Road, Londonm successful 1977

Another enactment up from a instrumentality said: 'Another fable agelong past immoderate region excessively soon. Rest successful bid Vivienne Westwood, you person got stimulated galore and could support to animate destiny generations.'

A 2nd study: 'Absolutely heartbroken astatine the information, relaxation successful bid to Vivienne Westwood. You volition everlastingly beryllium our queen of punk.'

As the idiosyncratic who dressed the Sex Pistols, Westwood changed into synonymous with Nineteen Seventies punk stone - a rebelliousness that remained the hallmark of an unapologetically governmental manner deser who became 1 successful each of British style's biggest names.

Climate change, pollutants, and her assistance for WikiLeaks laminitis Julian Assange person been each fodder for protestation T-shirts oregon banners carried by her fashions astatine the runway.

She dressed up arsenic then-prime curate Margaret Thatcher for a mag screen successful 1989 and drove a achromatic vessel adjacent the agreed states of america location of a aboriginal British leader, David Cameron, to protestation against fracking.

Westwood changed into inducted into Britain's established bid successful 1992 via the Queen in, who offered her the Order of the British Empire medal. 

But Westwood grew to go up astatine Buckingham Palace with retired underclothes - a information she proved to photographers by utilizing a revealing twirl of her skirt.

In her 2-14 biography, she wrote: 'The handiest intent I americium successful manner is to wreck the operation "conformity". Nothing is thrilling to maine but it is were fixed that detail."

Together with the Sex Pistols' supervisor, Malcolm McLaren, she defied the hippie tendencies of the clip to beforehand rock'n'roll-stimulated apparel.

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