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Biography of Vivienne Westwood
Name: Vivienne Westwood
Birth Date: 1941
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Tinwhistle, England
Nationality: British
Gender: Female
Occupations: designer
Vivienne Westwood
British designer Vivienne Westwood (born 1941) is often credited with being the creator of "punk fashions," among other trend-setting styles.Vivienne Westwood was born in Tinwhistle, England, in 1941. Following just one term at the Harrow Art School, Westwood left and trained to become a primary school teacher. She earned her living teaching until she crossed paths with Malcolm McLaren, the man behind the punk rock group The Sex Pistols.Under McLaren's guidance and influence, Westwood slid into the world of youthful fashion, which reflected the turmoil of those rebellious times. She was responsible for mirroring and outfitting the social movements characterized by the growing segments of British population known as the Teddy Boys, Rockers, and, finally, the Punks.In 1971 the duo began making drastic changes in British style with a series of shops located at 430 Kings Road. The first was Let It Rock, a 1950s revival boutique, coinciding with the Teddy …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…poor." According to such logic, Westwood was looking very poor, with sales of million reported at the turn of the century. The rapid growth--up from sales of million in five years--was attributed largely to the global expansion of her Westwood Studios operations and coincidental diversification into perfume boutiques to showcase her signature scent, Boudoir. Further Reading Additional information on designers and fashions can be found in the Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion (1988), McDowell's Directory of 20th Century Fashion (1987), and Catherine McDermott's Street Style (1987). See also Andrew Edelstein's The Pop Sixties (1985), Alison Lurie's The Language of Clothes (1983), and Melissa Sones' Getting into Fashion (1984). A biography was written in 1996, Fred Vermorel, Vivienne Westwood: Fashion, Perversity and the Sixties Laid Bare. Articles and reviews of fashion shows include "Marion Hume, Portrait of a Former Punk," Vogue (September, 1994) and Amy M. Spindler, "Treating History with a Sense of Pride," New York Times (March 17, 1997).
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