Vivienne Westwood

Jane Mulvagh First published 1998

About this book

This biography follows the working-class, provincial schoolteacher from Derbyshire who, untrained in either design or dressmaking, progressed from dressing up the Punk Rock movement in bondage to negotiating with the most prestigious culture house, Christian Dior, to become its designer-in-chief.

Subjects

  • biography
  • costume design
  • fashion designers
  • history
  • women, biography
  • women fashion designers