Vivien Westwood died

On December 29, the British designer Vivienne Westwood died. The news about this appeared on the social networks of her fashion house Vivienne Westwood. As stated in the statement, the designer "peacefully passed away surrounded by her family." Westwood was 81 years old.

The death of Westwood was commented by her husband and partner in the fashion house Andreas Bronalier: “I will continue [to do our work] along with Vivien. She remains in my heart. We worked until the very end. She left behind so many things to continue to do. ”

• Vivienne Westwood is called "Queen Punk." She stood at the origins of this subculture in the early 1970s, along with members of the Sex Pistols group, who regularly appeared in public in the clothes of her authorship. In 1971, Westwood and manager of the Malcolm McLaren group opened a cult clothing store LET It Rock in London, later renamed SEX. Westwood and McLaren have a common son Joseph.
• Westwood launched its own brand of the same name in 1981. The designer was the first to introduce punk aesthetics into high fashion. In the 1990s, she became the second British-after designer Mary Kuant, who became famous in the 1960s-who showed her collection at Fashion Week in Paris. In 2006, Westwood received from the hands of Queen Elizabeth II the title of lady-team of the Order of the British Empire.
• In the early 2000s, Vivienne Westwood began to engage in activism, which was reflected in her work. The main theme of its collections was the problems of ecology and climatic changes. In 2015, Westwood drove up to the house of the British Prime Minister David Cameron on the tank, protesting against the production of shale oil.