British designer vivienne westwood’ s store sex (stylized as sex) was the hub of punk fashion throughout the ‘ 70s, supplying the tangible pieces to craft a look and the intangible element of shock and controversy that punks wished to emulate. Vivienne westwood helped develop punk as a style, an ethos and a movement in the 1970s when she outfitted the sex pistols and inspired british youth to rebel Led by vivienne westwood and malcolm mclaren, the sex pistols helped create a fashion movement that lives on to this day. Vivienne westwood died on thursday at the age of 81 While she peacefully died, the impact of her death is quite tragic Many said it was an end of an era
Having dressed the sex pistols, she was. After the pistols imploded, westwood, splitting with mclaren, went on to forge a career as a high fashion designer, staging fashion shows and designing both “couture” and diffusion lines Only a small portion of the vivienne westwood 36 years in fashion exhibition, a retrospective of westwood’s career, dates from her punk period. Sex pistols, punk rock, and fashion revolution as the roaring engine of punk rock drove the counterculture movement forward, vivienne westwood found herself at the heart of a cultural revolution Collaborating with the infamous sex pistols, westwood breathed life into the anarchic spirit of punk through her daring designs.
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