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Vivienne Westwood has died

115 points| hectorlorenzo | 3 years ago |theguardian.com

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frereubu|3 years ago

For those who don't know much about her, there's a great documentary called "Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist" from 2018 by Lorna Tucker. Apparently Westwood hated it, but it feels pretty honest. Looks like it's available on Amazon Prime and Disney+ (at least in the UK).

Adam Buxton had the director Lorna Tucker on his podcast, in which she talks about the making of the film (amongst a great many other things): https://www.adam-buxton.co.uk/podcasts/lpbk8k9zbhx54zt-8yl8m...

lucasfcosta|3 years ago

I’ve seen lots of upvotes here, but no comments, so I thought I’d recommend the folks here to go read about her life.

Besides a brilliant designer, she has shaped a great part of what modern UK culture came to be.

She’ll be missed.

mikehotel|3 years ago

From the article:

As an anti-consumerist, Westwood gleefully undermined her own business interests. In 2010, she told AAP: “I just tell people, stop buying clothes. Why not protect this gift of life while we have it? I don’t take the attitude that destruction is inevitable. Some of us would like to stop that and help people survive.”

smartbit|3 years ago

According to Vivienne Westwood a parent has two tasks

1. help a child in finding it’s passion

2. once found, support it in exploring their passion

dwb|3 years ago

I don’t work at all closely to her life’s focus, or indeed with any significant fraction of her talent and drive, but I’m inspired by her nonetheless. RIP.

yowlingcat|3 years ago

Genuinely sad about this. She was such a talented and important artist. I loved her work; she made one of my favorite necklaces I own. RIP.