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The very famous designer Vivienne Westwood celebrated her 80th birthday on April 8, the ideal opportunity to retrace the career of the one who was a precursor of the punk fashion in the 70s. Winner of several awards, she was recently awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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Westwood can boast of having revolutionized the fashion of an entire era during her year career. The designer Vivienne Westwood was born in in a small village in Cheshire now Derbyshire , England. Her father was a modest shoemaker, and her mother worked in a cotton mill. In the s, her family moved to a town in the northwestern suburbs of London called Harlow.

The young Vivienne soon became interested in fashion and left home at the age of 17 to attend a London school, Harrow School of Art now the University of Westminster , where she studied fashion. However, after graduation, Vivienne Westwood turned first to teaching and taught elementary school classes until In , Vivienne Isabel Swire married Derek Westwood, with whom she had been in a relationship for three years.

He was then the head of a London nightclub, and Vivienne was a nightlife enthusiast. The couple moved in together the year of their marriage, and have a son, Benjamin Westwood. A year earlier, Vivienne Westwood met the man who would forever change the course of her life, Malcolm McLaren. Malcolm McLaren was then an art student and lived with his brother.

She then divorced Derek Westwood, while keeping his name, and a son with Malcolm in , Joseph. An activist in the soul, Malcolm participates in the student revolts of , and he initiates Vivienne to the detour, a situationist strategy that consists of using the aesthetic, especially in the fashion world, as a weapon of political protest. It was the beginning of the punk era, and the store marketed leather pants with sadomasochistic inspirations that made the conservative British blush with anger.