In 1962 Westwood married Derek Westwood and had a son. The couple divorced three years later. She later partnered with Sex Pistols manager Malcolm Mclaren and had another son with him. In 1992, ten years after Westwood and Mclaren split, Westwood married for a second time, to her assistant, Andreas Kronthaler, who is 25 years her junior. Today, Kronthaler is her design partner. The couple resides in South London. For 30 years, Westwood lived in an ex– council flat on Nightingale Lane, Clapham. [111] In 2000, Kronthaler convinced her to move into a Queen Anne style house in Clapham, that was built in 1703, and which once belonged to the mother of Captain Cook. [112] She was a keen gardener [113] and a vegetarian. [65] She identified spiritually as a Taoist. [114] 80th birthday [ edit ] As of December 2015, Vivienne Westwood Ltd operated 12 retail stores in the UK, including an outlet store in Bicester Village. There were 63 Westwood shops worldwide including nine in China, nine in Hong Kong, 18 in South Korea, six in Taiwan, two in Thailand, and two in the United States. Moet & Chandon Fashion Tribute honours Vivienne Westwood as the first fashion designer to have a solo exhibition at the V&A. Westwood was disenchanted with the direction that adoptees had taken punk in, many of them uninterested in punk's political values, viewing the style of the movement as a marketing opportunity instead of a medium for radical change; with the dissolution of the Sex Pistols, Westwood's inspiration for her eponymous line shifted instead to the 18th century. [24] Fashion collections [ edit ]

Sex Pistols" manager Malcolm McLaren with Vivienne Westwood outside Bow Street Magistrate Court in London. Bill Kennedy/Mirrorpix/Getty Images John Fairchild’s 1989 book ‘Chic Savages’ features Vivienne in a list of the world’s top six designers along with Armani, Lagerfeld, Saint Laurent, Lacroix and Ungaro. The Made in Kenya collaboration launches in 2010, as a partnership with the United Nations in support of the Ethical Fashion Initiative and Artisan Fashion.

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At 13, he found an experimental boarding school which taught artistic professions alongside an academic education. He then spent a year studying industrial design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna before re-enrolling for a fashion course on which Westwood taught. “I wasn’t really aware of her before then,” he says. “I’d seen bits of her work but I was still innocent and ignorant.” One of those contentious designs featured a swastika, an inverted image of Jesus Christ on the cross and the word "Destroy." In an autobiography written with Ian Kelly, she said it was meant as part of a statement against politicians torturing people, citing Chile's Augusto Pinochet. When asked if she regretted the swastika in a 2009 interview with Time magazine, Westwood said no.Savage, Spring-Summer 1982 – Flat cutting from Japan. – Inspired by: Matisse and Picasso. – “In taking from other cultures I’m just doing what Picasso did in his painting Demoiselles d’Avignon’” (Vivienne) – Examines rapport between clothes and the body. – Slashed sleeves and contrast linings. – David Lynch’s ‘The Elephant Man’ inspired foreign legion hats. Maybe it’s the clothes, because he dives right into reflection. Off the bat, we talk about the destruction of England’s textile industry; how he yearns for the electricity of a fashion show: I must come to Paris. Compared to its European equivalents in Milan and Paris, Kronthaler says, London fashion week feels small, unbecoming for a city of its size and energy.

Vivienne Westwood accused of hypocrisy over offshore tax base". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 21 February 2016. The retrospective "Vivienne Westwood: 34 Years in Fashion" is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. It is the largest exhibition the museum has ever dedicated to a designer. Vivienne receives an award for Fashion Designer of the Year for two years in a row in 1990 and 1991 by the British Fashion Council.

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Snead, Elizabeth (29 October 2012). "Vivienne Westwood Aids WikiLeaks With 'I Am Julian Assange' T-Shirts (Poll)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 26 July 2021. Pagan V, Spring-Summer 1990 – Invitation matched penis sketched underwear. – Exploring philosophies of Hellenistic Greece. – Sailor hats at an angle. – Pinstripes in abundance. – H.M.S ARGO print. – Pyjama suits. – Inspiration: Vases in the Louvre. – Lampshade wiring. Vivienne Westwood coming to Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris". Uk.fashionmag.com. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016 . Retrieved 21 February 2016. Graye, Megan (11 August 2022). "50 most influential artists in Britain revealed: David Bowie, Steve McQueen and Russell T Davies among top spots". The Independent . Retrieved 22 January 2023. Tied to the Mast, Spring-Summer 1998 – Sailor’s tall tales. – Paintings of Theodore Gericault. – Reimagined Pirate boots. – Women’s walking suits. – Crystal rope print. – Salt-stained, sun-bleached. – Eyepatches, hats made from maps and Brigand hats. – Thinking of Elizabeth I.