The fashion designer was synonymous with 1970s punk rock.
rebelliousness that remained the hallmark of an unapologetically political designer who became one of British fashion’s biggest names.
The rebel was inducted into Britain’s establishment in 1992 by Queen Elizabeth who awarded her the Order of the British Empire medal. But, ever keen to shock, Westwood turned up at Buckingham Palace without underwear — a fact she proved to photographers by a revealing twirl of her skirt. They moved on to torn outfits adorned with chains as well as latex and fetish pieces that they sold at their shop in London’s King’s Road variously called “Let It Rock”, “Sex” and “Seditionaries”, among other names.
When she was a teenager, her parents, a greengrocer and a cotton weaver, moved the family to north London where she studied jewellery making and silversmithing before re-training as a teacher.
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