Environmental Quotes Vivienne Westwood
“I think it is a good thing to buy less and choose well – it’s good for the environment and to be fair it’s also good for me because my clothes are quite expensive” Vivienne Westwood
Biography Vivienne Westwood
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- CATEGORY: Environmental quotes
- WHO: Vivienne Westwood (Vivienne Isabel Swire)
- BORN: on 8 April 1941
- WHERE: Tintwistle, Derbyshire, UK
- NATIONALITY: English
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
- Vivienne Westwood was one of the most important people who started the punk culture in the early 1970s.
- She worked together with her lover Malcolm McLaren the manager for the hugely controversial punk band The Sex Pistol; a band they styled and designed.
- Malcolm and Vivienne’s store Let It Rock opened in 1971, in 1974 the name changed to Sex. They designed and sold their own clothes in the shop in the 1970s it was regarded as the most important fashion store in the world.
- Vivienne Westwood is regarded as the most influential punk fashion designer that created punk DNA in the mid-70s. She and Malcolm McLaren revolutionized fashion, its place in society and still, their impact is vast.
- Westwood is widely known as a political activist. In 2008, she campaigned in person at the biggest for Nuclear Disarmament demonstration in the decade. She is also fought against what is called drug of consumerism and support in actions to reduce climate change.
- In 1992, Westwood awarded an OBE, which she collected from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, and she is two times awarded British designer of the year.
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