Vivienne Westwood - A Fashion Revolutionary

Vivienne Westwood was a conundrum. Softly spoken yet forthright, she straddled the worlds of fashion, politics, social justice and sartorial observation. Viewed globally as a quintessentially English figure, with an irreverent edge, she was a visionary who was obsessed with history and lived as though she was born in another century. She brought punk to the mainstream, was celebrated as a fashion designer through a long career and was a tireless and provocative activist for civil liberties and environmental causes. Vivienne Westwood: A Fashion Revolutionary is the first biography of the fashion icon since her death in 2022; a product of meticulous research, exclusive interviews with those who knew Westwood best and the biographer''s 40-year friendship with her subject. It offers an insider''s view of a woman who was internationally famous but known well by very few, telling the story of how a working-class English country girl became an international icon and succeeded against all odds.

Product details

• Authors: Linda Watson
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.04.2026
• EAN: 9781399735353
• ISBN: 978-1-399-73535-3
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: NATURE / Ecology, HISTORY / Women, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk, Biography: arts & entertainment, Business innovation, Fashion & textiles: design, history of design, Fashion and textile design, Biography: arts and entertainment