From not wearing panties during an official visit to Buckingham Palace to lockdown corsets, the designer's style has been outrageous since the time of the Sex Pistols, when she invented the punk style. Icon, environmental activist and extraordinary designer Dame Vivienne Westwood turns 80 today. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Viviene Westwood celebrates this important anniversary with a video message to the world live from Piccadilly Circus tonight at 9:21 pm: CIRCA presents a 10-minute video entitled "Do Not Buy A Bomb"

<a href="https://www.lofficiel.co.uk/Fashion/london-punk-style-big-earrings-trends">Punk icon, </a>activist and extraordinary designer Vivienne Westwood celebrates her 80th birthday today, April 8th. She emerged on the fashion scene in the 1970s, together with her partner Malcolm McLaren she creates the punk style, with her androgynous designs, safety pins, slogan T-shirts and irreverent attitude towards the establishment. Since then, Westwood has continued to push boundaries. Self-taught, advocate of the motto &quot;learning throgh process&quot;, that is, of learning by doing things, she is responsible for some cult creations in the history of fashion - including her interpretation of the corset, the &quot;mini-hair&quot; - a shortened version of the &#39;Victorian crinoline dress, the use of revisited historical English clothing, the pictorial transposition of paintings and the super tower wedges created from a nineteenth-century shoe, also famous for dropping Naomi Campbell on the catwalk in 1993. All garments, pieces that the designer herself dresses, wears and promotes as a perfect extension of herself, as a designer and as a woman.

The mother of punk, <a href="https://www.lofficiel.co.uk/fashion-week/myfair-lady-a-play-by-vivienne-westwood">Westwood</a> has little patience for fairness or prudence, as evidenced by a famous photo in which she is joined by Chrissie Hynde and the saleswoman Jordan. They are all standing with their backs to the camera, the bottom painted with letters spelling out the name of the designer&#39;s boutique, which in 1977 was called Sex. These were conscious displays; the designer&#39;s most infamous revelation, by contrast, was allegedly unplanned and came in 1992 when Westwood went to Buckingham Palace to receive his OBE. She wore a couture dress with prominent shoulders and a full structured skirt, and when she turned for the cameras and the full skirt flew, it became apparent that she had left her underwear at home. She will return to the Queen&#39;s presence in 2004 and to a reporter who asked her if she had or hadn&#39;t worn underwear she replied &quot;don&#39;t ask me, the answer is always the same, I don&#39;t use panties or briefs if I wear clothes&quot;.

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Westwood&#39;s style is not only defined by exhibitionism, but brings his political agenda to the fore. One of her other beliefs is &quot;buy less, buy better&quot; or &quot;buy less and buy better, to fight consumerist ideology. An ardent activist, the designer took the idea of ​​using the slogans of causes supported over the years as a fil rouge in his collections: in the form of printing, knitting and affixing posters on clothing and accessories. More than 40 years into her career, a retrospective dedicated to her by London&#39;s Victoria &amp; Albert in 2004, <a href="https://www.lofficiel.co.uk/Fashion/women-history-month-fashion-designers-houses">Westwood has become increasingly iconic.</a> It is an idea he plays with, also appearing as the protagonist of advertising campaigns and his lookbooks. In fact, there is Dame Westwood herself, who is 80 years old proudly displays her legs and exhibits her pull-up stockings, this time without a garter belt, in the spring <a href="https://www.lofficiel.co.uk/fashion-week/vivienne-westwood-fall-winter-collection-look-photos">2021</a> lookbook for the Andreas Kronthaler collection (the current husband and co-director creative) for Vivienne Westwood. Long live Queen Viv. On the occasion of her 80th birthday, Viviene Westwood celebrates this important anniversary with a video message to the world live from Piccadilly Circus: CIRCA presents a 10-minute video entitled &quot;Do Not Buy A Bomb&quot;. Made by Westwood, the short shows the punk icon performing a rewritten version of My Fair Lady&#39;s &quot;Without You&quot;. Through a warning of society&#39;s indifference to impending environmental catastrophes, a cry against the arms trade and its link to climate change, Vivienne Westwood reflects on an England without people and challenges the public to &quot;Tell the children the truth&quot; Last but not least, to further support the campaign against the use of weapons supported by the designer, a limited edition print by Vivienne Westwood entitled &quot;Do Not Buy a Bomb&quot; was created and created in support of #CIRCAECONOMY.

Vivienne Westwood with Andrea Kronthaler

Vivienne Westwood with Naomi 

The Punk Fashion Icon Vivienne Westwood Turns 80 Today and Launches a Video Message

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