Key facts about Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Westwood was a British fashion designer.
She was born in 1941 in Glossop, Derbyshire and died in 2022.
A fashion designer is someone who creates designs for clothes, shoes or accessories such as bags or belts.
Vivienne Westwood used her fashion designs to express her thoughts and feelings about about topics she cared about, like climate changeThe shift in the Earth鈥檚 usual weather conditions over many years..
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Vivienne Westwood and her designs were part of a movement known as punk that became popular in the 1970s.
Punks are often seen in ripped clothes, denim, leather, metal spikes or studs and army style boots. They sometimes use safety pins as decorations on their clothes.
Throughout her career Vivienne Westwood mixed the punk style with more traditional styles and materials such as tartanA fabric featuring a checked pattern of different colours, traditionally associated with Scotland. and tweedA type of rough, wool material..
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- Vivienne Westwood always encouraged people to buy less fast fashionClothes that are produced quickly, often using lower quality materials that are typically replaced after a short time..
- She said we should keep wearing things that we love instead of replacing clothes when we get bored of them.
- Clothing production can use lots of energy and resources. It sometimes uses toxicUnhealthy or dangerous. fabric dyes and other chemicals that can pollute water.
- Westwood used fabrics that were sustainable, friendly to the environment and would last a long time.
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