The acclaimed biography of one of Englands great eccentrics and leading fashion designers, reissued in an updated edition to coincide with a major exhibition of Westwoods work at the Victoria &amp Albert Museum. For three decades, Vivienne Westwood has been Britains most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric and controversial designer. In that time she has evolved from an iconoclastic outsider to an internationally revered figure, with two British Designer of the Year awards, an OBE, her own successful fashion label and an unrivalled reputation for leading where other designers follow. Her lifestyle could scarcely be in greater contrast to the opulence which surrounds other leading designers until recently she lived in a modest council flat in South London, and she still travels around the capital by bicycle, dressed in her own flamboyant creations, with a plastic bag protecting her hair from the elements. How did an awkward girl from a conventional and provincial background become one of world fashions most influential and respected designers? How has she managed to remain true to her own idiosyncratic vision, refusing to conform to the fashion industrys, and societys, expectations? Speaking to Westwood herself, her friends, lovers, colleagues, rivals, admirers and detractors, Jane Mulvagh has created a portrait as rich, distinctive and constantly surprising as her subjects character and work.

Binding: Paperback;450 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: AKTA; Weight: 482 g; Dimensions: 135 x 198 x 29

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