Vivienne Westwood: Icons of Fashion - Emilie Murray

This beautifully illustrated book tells the incredible story of Dame Vivienne Westwood a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. Traditionalist, provocateur, utterly contemporary: Vivienne Westwood was one of British fashion's most famous - and most contradictory - designers. The woman who helped create punk clocked up over four decades on the cutting edge, and produced some of modern style's most recognisable looks.�Westwood came to worldwide attention when she made clothes for the�boutique that she and Malcolm McLaren ran on King's Road, which became�known as Sex. Their ability to synthesize clothing and music shaped the 1970s�UK punk scene, which included McLaren's band, the Sex Pistols. She viewed�punk as a way of "seeing if one could put a spoke in the system". Westwood opened four shops in London and eventually expanded throughout Britain and the world, selling a varied range of merchandise, some of which promoted her political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, climate change and civil rights groups.