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Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivienne Westwood DBE is the greatest living British fashion designer. Born in Cheshire, England, in 1941 she is best known as the creator of punk and new wave fashions in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first major retrospective of her work was shown in 2005-2005 at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. In 2008 she published her own manifesto in book form, Vivienne Westwood Opus.