Fashion Designer Vivienne Westwood Dead at 81 - TMZ

Vivienne Westwood Dead astatine 81

12/29/2022 1:31 PM PT

Vivienne Westwood -- whose manner designs are mostly credited for bringing punk styles to the mainstream -- has died.

A connection from Westwood's squad announced she died Thursday peacefully and surrounded by loved ones successful South London. The connection reads, "Vivienne continued to bash the things she loved, up until the past moment, designing, moving connected her art, penning her book, and changing the satellite for the better."

It continues, "She led an astonishing life. Her innovation and interaction implicit the past 60 years has been immense and volition proceed into the future."

The connection says, "Vivienne considered herself a Taoist. She wrote, "Tao spiritual system. There was ne'er much request for the Tao today. Tao gives you a feeling that you beryllium to the cosmos and gives intent to your life; it gives you specified a consciousness of individuality and spot to cognize you're surviving the beingness you tin unrecorded and truthful ought to beryllium living: marque afloat usage of your quality and afloat usage of your beingness connected earth."

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Finally stating, "The satellite needs radical similar Vivienne to marque a alteration for the better."

Westwood got her archetypal designation acknowledgment to a boutique she and Malcolm McLaren, who managed the Sex Pistols, ran successful the UK called SEX. From there, she continued to unfastened shops successful London and past astir the world.

Later connected successful her career, she collabed with Pharrell Williams, wedding looks for Princess Eugenie and adjacent designed uniforms for Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic crew.

Westwood was 81.

RIP