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Dame Vivienne Westwood OBE
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Vivienne Westwood’s overriding gift to fashion is her conviction that clothing can change the way people think. She has always said, The real link that connects all my clothes is this idea of the heroic.
Her career has been a self education, and her collections have closely followed her own discovery of the past, through literature, music and the applied arts. The Vivienne Westwood company remains independent and Vivienne oversees every aspect of it. She has become the queen of British fashion and received many distinguished awards, including the OBE in 1991, and has been made a Dame in 2006, yet she still cycles everywhere.
Westwood has come a long way from Punk, but as she said at the time of the 1981 Pirate collection, I realised I could do anything I liked. It was only a question of how I did it that would make it original. I realised then that I could go on forever.
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The exhibition at V&A.
We will post many more images of the show in Sheffield after 29 May 2008.
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