British fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, responsible for ushering in the punk fashion phenomenon of the 1970s, has died.
“Vivienne considered herself a Taoist. She wrote, ‘Tao spiritual system. There was never more need for the Tao today. Tao gives you a feeling that you belong to the cosmos and gives purpose to your life; it gives you such a sense of identity and strength to know you’re living the life you can live and therefore ought to be living: make full use of your character and full use of your life on earth.
“I will continue with Vivienne in my heart. We have been working until the end and she has given me plenty of things to get on with. Thank you darling,” said Westwood’s husband and creative partner, Andreas Kronthaler. Westwood was born in 1941 in Tintwistle, East Midlands of England. By 1958, her family moved to Harrow in the London Borough of Harrow and this is when she showed an interest in fashion by enrolling on to a jewelry and silversmith course at Harrow Art School, now known as University of Westminster, but dropped out after one term.
She had a short stint as a primary school teacher while simultaneously creating her own jewelry and selling it at a stall on Portobello Road. Westwood met her first husband Derek Westwood in 1962 and married him that same year in a wedding dress that she made herself at the age of 21.
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