Vivienne Westwood

Gwen Stefani is a celebrity fan of Vivienne Westwood clothes

Dame Vivienne Westwood was born Vivienne Isabel Swire on 8 April 1941, in the village of Tintwistle, near Glossop, Derbyshire. She is a well known fashion designer with many celebrity fans.

Vivienne studied at the Harrow School of Art for one term before moving onto Trent Park College and later teaching at a North London primary school.

Her first husband of three years was Derek Westwood. She then went on to marry Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and they set up a boutique on King's Road, London, during the 1970s. Westwood still owns the shop now known as World's End, where she sells her Anglomania label.

The Sex Pistols wore clothes from Westwood and McClaren's shop to their first gig and the rise in punk fashion began.

Westwood is known for creating clothes which combine traditional British elements such as tartan fabric with more unusual things such as safety pins and spiked dog collars. A historical influence has also always shown in her work.

Westwood has won the British Designer of the Year award three times and was given a OBE in the 2006 New Year's Honours List for services to fashion.

Celebrity fans include Gwen Stefani, Pete Burns, Naomi Campbell, Fearne Cotton and Jerry Hall.

Her son Joseph Corre followed in Westwood's footsteps by founding Agent Provocateur. Her other son Ben Westwood is an erotic photographer.

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