british designer Vivienne Westwood, who approached the punk to the world of fashionpassed away this Thursday at 81 years old South London.
Westwooddriven by her hatred of injustices in the world and seeing fashion as a weapon, she created the movement New Romantics and made the model Naomi Campbell parade on the catwalk with a cone trafficalso appeared without underwear in a meeting with the Queen isabel II.
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Through a statement on Twitterhis fashion house said Westwood has passed away “at peace and surrounded” of his family in Clapham. “The world needs people like Vivienne to make a change for the better”says the message.
For her part, her husband and partner, Andreas Kronthaler, said: “I will continue with Vivienne in my heart. We have been working to the end and she has given me a lot to keep going. Thanks sweetie”.
The race of Westwood in fashion began in the decade of 1970 with the explosion of punk, when his radical approach to urban street style took the world by storm. But he enjoyed a long career highlighted by a series of triumphal parades in London, Paris, Milan and New York.
Westwood’s career in fashion began in the 1970s with the punk explosion.
Westwood was a fervent environmentalist who had campaigned for the animal advocacy group PETAand became an outspoken defender of the fight against global warming.
Do famous people die 3 by 3?
What is the myth about? “Celebrity Death Rule of Threes”? By its name in Spanish “rule of death of celebrities in threes”It is said that every time a famous person dies, shortly after another two artists lose their lives.
According to various media over the years, the belief was born on February 3, 1959 or also called “The Day the Music Died”, when three rock and roll legends (Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper)) died in a tragic plane crash.
And perhaps this is true again, after the reggae singer’s grandson passed away just yesterday Bob Marley, Joseph “Jo Mersa” Marleyand today the Brazilian soccer star Pele and the designer Vivienne Westwood.
