British fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, who was a key part of bringing punk fashion into the mainstream, has died at 81.
No cause was given, but a tweet from her fashion house said she passed “peacefully and surrounded” by her family in Clapham, South London.
Westwood was a sometimes-controversial punk and new wave designer in the 1970s and went on to dress some of the biggest names in fashion.
Her androgynous designs, slogan t-shirts and irreverent attitude towards the establishment were her trademark, as was her activism on bringing causes like climate change to the catwalk.
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