Punk stylist Vivienne Westwood
Punk was born to be incendiary, designed to provoke . . . a rebel yell in sound and fashion. And there would have been no punk look without the lady in the orange hair.
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"I actually started [with] fashion to help my boyfriend," she told CBS News correspondent Anthony Mason. "He just needed somebody to help him make these clothes. And I always could make things, yeah."
Her boyfriend was Malcolm McLaren, manager of the pioneering punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.
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"At the time of punk rock, I was so outraged at the way the world is so corrupt and mismanaged and everything that the look was supposed to be an urban guerrilla," Westwood told Mason. "It was somehow a kind of crusade to challenge the status quo."
1999 Fall/Winter collection
Westwood told Mason that, a lot of the time, fashion is "a reaction against what is."
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"Oh, that was brilliant. That was really, really great. I was so proud of my acting ability!" she exclaimed.
Spring 2001 collection
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Dame Vivienne Westwood
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When asked by Mason if she still thinks of herself as a rebel, Westwood replied, "To tell you the truth, all I am really trying to do is to make the world a better place."
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For more info:
viviennewestwood.co.uk
Get a Life (Vivienne Westwood's blog)
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
"Punk: Chaos to Couture" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through August 19, 2013)
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