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Vivienne Westwood was the Queen of Punk Rock and her fashions have scandalized and fascinated the world since the Sixties.
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Vivienne Westwood was the Queen of Punk Rock and her fashions have scandalized and fascinated the world since the Sixties. Parading models bare-breasted down the catwalks of Paris, posing pantiless outside Buckingham Palace-she has an insatiable appetite for anarchic outrageousness. She has never lost her power to shock, and her continued innovations make her one of the most talked about fashion designers in the world. But little is know about this essentially private woman . Leather bondage gear, latex lounge dresses, flesh-coloured body suits, slashed t-shirts, mink G-strings, fake fur knickers, satin codpieces, bustles. These are the staples of a die-hard Vivienne Westwood wardrobe. The biographical details of Britain's leading fashion iconoclast read like a history of late twentieth century counter-culture. Ever since she joined forces with Malcom McLaren in 1971 (a collaboration that lasted 13 years), Vivienne Westwood has been firmly ensconced in the cultural avant-garde. Her S & M-...
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