Vivienne Westwood: The Lives of a Renaissance Woman

By Linda Watson

Vivienne Westwood was a conundrum. Softly spoken yet forthright, she straddled the worlds of fashion, politics, social justice and sartorial observation. Viewed globally as a quintessentially English figure, with an irreverent edge, she was a visionary who was obsessed with history and lived as though she was born in another century. She brought punk to the mainstream, was celebrated as a fashion designer through a long career and was a tireless and provocative activist for civil liberties and environmental causes.

Vivienne Westwood: A Fashion Revolutionary is the first biography of the fashion icon since her death in 2022; a product of meticulous research, exclusive interviews with those who knew Westwood best and the biographer's 40-year friendship with her subject.

It offers an insider's view of a woman who was internationally famous but known well by very few, telling the story of how a working-class English country girl became an international icon and succeeded against all odds.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399735357
• ISBN13: 9781399735353
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Hachette Mobius
• Length: 352 Pages