Fashion designer and style icon Vivienne Westwood dies aged 81.
British fashion icon Vivienne Westwood died on 29 December, her eponymous fashion label announced. She was 81.
“Vivienne Westwood died today, peacefully and surrounded by her family, in Clapham, South London. The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better,” the fashion label said on Twitter.
Westwood was known for her rebellious political activism on the runway and taking punk to greater heights by fusing fashion with music.
Born Vivienne Isabel Swire on 8 April 1941 in the village of Tintwistle in northern England, she studied jewellery in London but soon dropped out. Her first marriage was to factory worker Derek Westwood, with whom she had a son.
In 1992, she married Andreas Kronthaler who was her former student and 25 years younger.
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