She is the other queen of Great Britain, the revolutionary fashion sovereign, who also received recognition in 1992 from Elizabeth II, a BOTH (Order of the British Empire) the highest honor in the United Kingdom, for its artistic merits. Vivienne Westwood, for friends Dame Viv, who celebrates her 80th birthday on April 8, is an undisputed icon of punk and above all a great inspiration, feeding it between fashion, music and ideology with her partner in early crime Malcom MacLaren.
Those were the days of the famous shop Sex in King’s Road in London, founded by the two, which became the hub-manifesto of the punk, counter-current, do-it-yourself and anarchist vision of the time. He had changed various names, born as Let it Rock, in 1971, renamed Too Fast to Live, too Young to Die, to then become in 1974 Sex, when it had welcomed an S&M aesthetic, representing later, with the advent of the Tatcher era from 1979 onwards, an ideological point of reference for rebellion and youthful discontent.
Irreverent, transgressive, out of all schemes, provocative, activist for the protection of the planet, famous for showing up in front of the queen at Buckingham Palace without underwear and for the phrase “if in doubt it is better to exaggerate”, Vivienne Westwood continues today to be a transgenerational inspiration.
Not only has her fashion changed aesthetic codes forever, introducing studs, brooches, ripped fabrics mixed with Victorian details such as draperies, corsets or crinolines, a tribute to the emblematic contrasts of British DNA, but Vivienne Westwood also owes a contribution in the creation ofmore rebellious and transgressive beauty aesthetics made of hair with crests and mohicans, scenographic and graphic tricks, from bold eyeliner for men and women, dark lipsticks from black to purple, scarlet eyeshadows, face piercings, a style that the band managed by Malcolm MacLaren, The Sex Pistol embodied in its essence.
The looks that Dame Viv first wore on her catwalks have become a symbol of non-conformism in the collective imagination, as have her hairstyles that have ranged from spiky tufts, to shaves, up to more recently to long hair in shades carrot, sunflower yellow or snow white styled in buns with a vintage allure with a fairytale and surreal twist. Vivienne Westwood, like her style, has never gone unnoticed and to pay homage to the incomparable contribution she has made to the history of aesthetics in the gallery we have collected some of her most iconic hairstyle.
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