Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (1941-), Fashion designer
Sitter in 15 portraits
Vivienne Isabel Swire was born in Derbyshire and moved to London with her family when she was 17. Her first career was as a primary school teacher but left in 1971 to form a partnership with Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, (1946-2010). Together they opened a boutique on King's Road called Let it Rock which sold 'Teddy Boy' clothes. By 1974 the shop had been renamed Sex and Westwood began to sell her designs which would define the look of the punk movement. McLaren and Westwood's first catwalk show staged in 1981. Westwood was named Designer of the Year in 1990 and 1991 and her career to date was celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2004.
by Jane Bown
bromide print, 1999
NPG P758(9)
by Mario Testino
C-type colour print, 1999
NPG P1022
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood; Joseph Corré
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by Laurie Lewis
C-type colour print, 1985
NPG x136302
by Angus McBean
C-type colour print, 1988
NPG x128899
by Alastair Thain
toned bromide fibre print, 1988
NPG x45104
by David Secombe
cibachrome print, 1992
NPG x68821
by Anne-Katrin Purkiss
bromide fibre print, December 1992
NPG x47119
Cora Corré; Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
by Johnnie Shand Kydd
bromide fibre print, 1998
NPG x87738
by Bryan Adams
C-type colour print, 20 February 2008
NPG x131986
by Philip Sayer
colour print from original transparency, 1987
NPG x76416
by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
digital C-type colour print, 1996
NPG x126319
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood as Elizabeth I
by Gian Paolo Barbieri
archival digital print, 1997
NPG x131334
Cora Corré; Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
by Kevin Mackintosh
C-type colour print, 2001
NPG x125278
Cora Corré (granddaughter)
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