Vivienne Westwood: the self-taught great disrupter

The fashion designer who aimed to destroy the word 'conformity' and who urged people to "just don't buy too much": Vivienne Westwood 1941-2022

Vivienne Westwood: renowned for everything from the slashed t-shirts and bondage trousers of the 70s to the mini-crinis and rocking horse shoes worn so memorably by Sarah Stockbridge (and fallen off by Naomi Campbell) in the 80s to the bustles and corsets of the 90s

Such is the ageless timeless iconoclasm of Vivienne Westwood that news of her death seems a bit unreal, until you remember that she was 81. 

She was to fashion what Bowie was to music — a perpetually shape-shifting force, visionary and genre-creating — she continually invented and reinvented ideas, using couture as her medium.