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Vivienne Westwood’s best looks – in pictures
We take a look back at some of the most memorable looks from the iconic British fashion designer and rebel
Main image: Jerry Hall for Westwood’s autumn/winter 1996-97 presentation in Paris Photograph: Daniel Simon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty ImagesFri 30 Dec 2022 17.43 GMT Last modified on Fri 30 Dec 2022 20.05 GMT
Autumn/winter 1981-82, London
The 1981 Pirate collection was Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s first official collaborative catwalk show. It informed the aesthetic of the World’s End boutique with its ship features.Photograph: David Corio/Redferns
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A model wearing Vivienne Westwood clothes outside the World’s End boutique in Chelsea.Photograph: Universal ImagesGroup/Getty Images
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Ready-to-wear fashion show.Photograph: WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images
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A sailor-inspired look on the runway.Photograph: WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images
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Entitled Dressing Up, this collection reimagined tropes and signatures including models wearing monogrammed towels with the orb logo – first used to symbolise taking tradition into the future.Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images
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British fashion model Sarah Stockbridge on the catwalk at the Vivienne Westwood ready-to-wear fashion show.Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 1991-92
Dubbed ‘Always on Camera’, this collection was inspired by 1930s Hollywood.Photograph: John van Hasselt/Corbis/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 1992-93, Paris
In 1993 Vivienne produced her own tartan and invented her own clan, MacAndreas, for the Anglomania collection. The Lochcarron of Scotland officially recognised the clan, a process that normally takes 200 years.Photograph: WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 1993-94, Paris
Supermodel Kate Moss regularly walked for Westwood.Photograph: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images
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Topless and wearing a micromini dubbed a “mini-crini” Kate Moss ate an ice-cream as she walked the runway in 1994.Photograph: Pool Arnal/Garcia/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 1994-95, Paris
Naomi Campbell in checks and diamond-printed leggings.Photograph: PL Gould/Images Press/Getty Images
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- ParisCarla Bruni in the famous fuzzy coat and matching underwear from the On Liberty collection. In 2007 Westwood was one of the first designers to ban the use of real fur in her collections.Photograph: Michel Dufour/WireImage
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The Vive la Cocotte collection in 1995.Photograph: Alexis Duclos/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
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Supermodel Linda Evangelista in a dazzling gown on the runway.Photograph: Images Press/Getty Images
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When asked about her most memorable Westwood show by AnotherMag, Kate Moss said: “The one where I had a rabbit and I think I was naked … I don’t think they’d put any top on me. I don’t know, I was wearing Crotch Minis [dropped crotch trousers] and I think some crazy hairdo by Sam McKnight – a mohawk but it was all curly ...”Photograph: Daniel Simon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 1995-96, Paris
Linda Evangelista on the runway in Paris, France.Photograph: PL Gould/Images Press/Getty Images
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Kate Moss in the Vive La Bagatelle runway show.Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images
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French model Laetitia Casta.Photograph: SWAN/AP
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Helena Christensen at the Tied to the Mast collection in 1998.Photograph: Alexis Duclos/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
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Models at the finale of a Parisian runway show.Photograph: Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images
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2000, New YorkRed Label was a youthful-inspired label regularly promoting a number of human rights causes close to Westwood’s heart.Photograph: Evan Agostini/Getty Images
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Jerry Hall in a ready-to-wear gown.Photograph: Pierre Vauthey/Sygma/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 2001-02, Paris
Westwood’s clothes featured rips and safety pins but were steeped in history.Photograph: Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 2003-04, Paris
Beige and cerise pink clashed on the runway in 2003.Photograph: WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images
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Backstage at Vivienne Westwood in 2005.Photograph: Sveeva Vigiveno/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
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Kate Moss and Vivienne Westwood at the British Fashion Awards in London.Photograph: David M Benett/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn Winter 2009-10 Paris
Pamela Anderson walks the runway ready-to-wear fashion show during Paris fashion week at Couvent des Cordeliers.Photograph: Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage
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Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images
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Photograph: Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage
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Dramatic makeup was always a key part of Westwood’s collections.Photograph: Antonio de Moraes Barros Filho/WireImage
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Rihanna performs in a Vivienne Westwood gown at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in New York City.Photograph: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
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Singer Jessie J wore designs by Vivienne Westwood during the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.Photograph: Hannah Peters/Getty Images
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Lily Cole wears Vivienne Westwood to attend the Costume Institute Gala for the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/Winter 2015-16, London
A model walks the runway at the Vivienne Westwood Red Label show during London fashion week at the Science Museum.Photograph: Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
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A model walks the runway at the Vivienne Westwood show during London fashion week men’s collections at Seymour Leisure Centre.Photograph: Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images
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Kim Kardashian attends the Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City wearing a Vivienne Westwood dress from her archive.Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Share on Facebook Share on TwitterAutumn/winter 2020-21, Paris
In a tribute on her Instagram following the death of Westwood, Bella Hadid wrote: “From the first day I met you to the last day I saw you, you made me smile, listen, learn and love more than the day before. I will forever be grateful to have been in your orbit, because to me and most , in fashion & in humanity, you, Vivienne, were the sun.”Photograph: Thierry Chesnot/Getty Images
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Irina Shayk on the runway.Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
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A model walks the runway during the Vivienne Westwood ready-to-wear show.Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images
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