Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world
The designer and iconoclast died on December 29th, aged 81
Number 430 King’s Road, where London’s Chelsea swerves towards Fulham, was a shop you entered in the 1970s only if you dared. The couple who ran it, Vivienne Westwood and her on-off partner Malcolm McLaren, liked it that way. Shocks to the system were their stock in trade. Any system, more or less.
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