Vivienne Westwood
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"Dame Vivienne Westwood", Order of the British Empire/DBE, Royal Designers for Industry/RDI is an English people/English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern Punk fashion/punk and New wave music/new wave fashions into the mainstream.

Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's boutique in the King's Road, which became famous as "SEX". It was their ability to synthesise clothing and music that shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, dominated by McLaren's band, the Sex Pistols. She was deeply inspired by the shock-value of punk - "seeing if one could put a spoke in the system".

Westwood went on to open four shops in London, eventually expanding throughout the United Kingdom and the world, selling an increasingly varied range of merchandise, some of it linked to her many political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, climate change and the civil rights group Liberty (pressure group)/Liberty. She has been twice married, and has two children.

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If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.

He was very, very charismatic. He loved to be with glamorous people and did an awful lot to invent glamour.

I am not a terrorist. Please don't arrest me.

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way.

Liberty throw away the key.

He helped to keep this round of glamour constantly happening.

For me Margaret Thatcher has always been one of the world's best-dressed people. Her politics were appalling, but her look gave her incredible presence.

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.

The girls are very, very healthy looking. The hair is incredibly pretty, but I myself might call it a little scientific. It's a little bit off, the way it's lifted and then allowed to fall over the lift.