Remarkable Vivienne Westwood dressed Carrie Bradshaw and the Sex Pistols, too

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Vivienne Westwood, the British dressmaker identified each for clothes the Nineteen Seventies punk motion and for many years of making stunning high-fashion robes for runways and purple carpets, died Dec. 29 in London, on the age of 81. Hers was a remarkable life in fashion; you might bear in mind her for the security pins and torn T-shirts wherein she dressed the likes of the Intercourse Pistols, or perhaps for the dramatically corseted and flounced silk marriage ceremony robe worn by Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw within the 2008 “Intercourse and the Metropolis” film. (I’ve at all times liked the motion of that robe; it appeared, appropriately, on the verge of chickening out.) This photograph exhibits Westwood along with her fashions after her 2015 fall/winter present at London Style Week; I selected it for the sense of enjoyable they appear to be sharing. “It’s received to chop a determine,” Westwood mused of her work to The New York Times in 2009. “It’s received to step out, it’s received to say, ‘Hello.’”