Death of Vivienne Westwood: three reasons not to forget the Queen… of Punk

British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. Three reasons not to forget it.

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Journalist at the Culture Department

By Julie Huon

Published on 29/12/2022 at 23:51Reading time: 3 mins

VSthis time, punk is dead. For real. Vivienne Westwood, one of the most original and committed designers in the history of fashion, who rose to fame in the late 1970s, broke her pipe. Oh yes, rebellious, wild, both looking towards the future (of the planet) and the past (of crinolines), this woman was the type to smoke a pipe.

Until the end, the collections she now designed with her husband, Austrian designer Andreas Kronthaler, were powerful, relevant and coherent. Three things to remember from the one who was a huge influencer decades before the word influencer not be invented.

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