Vivienne Westwood’s best looks – in pictures

We take a look back at some of the most memorable looks from the iconic British fashion designer and rebel

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Main image: Jerry Hall for Westwood’s autumn/winter 1996-97 presentation in Paris Photograph: Daniel Simon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

  • Autumn/winter 1981-82, London

    The 1981 Pirate collection was Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s first official collaborative catwalk show. It informed the aesthetic of the World’s End boutique with its ship features.

  • London 1985

    A model wearing Vivienne Westwood clothes outside the World’s End boutique in Chelsea.

  • Spring/Summer 1986

    Ready-to-wear fashion show.

  • Spring/summer 1986

    A sailor-inspired look on the runway.

  • Spring/summer 1991, Paris

    Entitled Dressing Up, this collection reimagined tropes and signatures including models wearing monogrammed towels with the orb logo – first used to symbolise taking tradition into the future.

  • Spring/summer 1991, Paris

    British fashion model Sarah Stockbridge on the catwalk at the Vivienne Westwood ready-to-wear fashion show.

  • Autumn/winter 1991-92

    Dubbed ‘Always on Camera’, this collection was inspired by 1930s Hollywood.

  • Autumn/winter 1992-93, Paris

    In 1993 Vivienne produced her own tartan and invented her own clan, MacAndreas, for the Anglomania collection. The Lochcarron of Scotland officially recognised the clan, a process that normally takes 200 years.

  • Autumn/winter 1993-94, Paris

    Supermodel Kate Moss regularly walked for Westwood.

  • Spring/summer 1994, Paris

    Topless and wearing a micromini dubbed a “mini-crini” Kate Moss ate an ice-cream as she walked the runway in 1994.

  • Autumn/winter 1994-95, Paris

    Naomi Campbell in checks and diamond-printed leggings.

  • Autumn/winter 1994-95

    - ParisCarla Bruni in the famous fuzzy coat and matching underwear from the On Liberty collection. In 2007 Westwood was one of the first designers to ban the use of real fur in her collections.

  • Spring/summer 1995, Paris

    The Vive la Cocotte collection in 1995.

  • Spring/summer 1995, Paris

    Supermodel Linda Evangelista in a dazzling gown on the runway.

  • Autumn/winter 1995-96, Paris

    When asked about her most memorable Westwood show by AnotherMag, Kate Moss said: “The one where I had a rabbit and I think I was naked … I don’t think they’d put any top on me. I don’t know, I was wearing Crotch Minis [dropped crotch trousers] and I think some crazy hairdo by Sam McKnight – a mohawk but it was all curly ...”

  • Autumn/winter 1995-96, Paris

    Linda Evangelista on the runway in Paris, France.

  • Spring/summer 1997, Paris

    Kate Moss in the Vive La Bagatelle runway show.

  • Spring/summer 1999, Paris

    French model Laetitia Casta.

  • Spring/summer 1998, Paris

    Helena Christensen at the Tied to the Mast collection in 1998.

  • Spring/summer 1998, Paris

    Models at the finale of a Parisian runway show.

  • Spring/summer

    2000, New YorkRed Label was a youthful-inspired label regularly promoting a number of human rights causes close to Westwood’s heart.

  • Autumn Winter 2000/01

    Jerry Hall in a ready-to-wear gown.

  • Autumn/winter 2001-02, Paris

    Westwood’s clothes featured rips and safety pins but were steeped in history.

  • Autumn/winter 2003-04, Paris

    Beige and cerise pink clashed on the runway in 2003.

  • Spring/summer 2005, Paris

    Backstage at Vivienne Westwood in 2005.

  • London, 2009

    Kate Moss and Vivienne Westwood at the British Fashion Awards in London.

  • Autumn Winter 2009-10 Paris

    Pamela Anderson walks the runway ready-to-wear fashion show during Paris fashion week at Couvent des Cordeliers.

  • Spring/summer 2010, Paris

  • Spring/summer 2011, Paris

  • Autumn Winter 2011/12, Paris

    Dramatic makeup was always a key part of Westwood’s collections.

  • 2012, New York City

    Rihanna performs in a Vivienne Westwood gown at the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in New York City.

  • 2012 Olympics, London

    Singer Jessie J wore designs by Vivienne Westwood during the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

  • New York, May 2013

    Lily Cole wears Vivienne Westwood to attend the Costume Institute Gala for the Punk: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

  • Autumn/Winter 2015-16, London

    A model walks the runway at the Vivienne Westwood Red Label show during London fashion week at the Science Museum.

  • London fashion week, men, 2017

    A model walks the runway at the Vivienne Westwood show during London fashion week men’s collections at Seymour Leisure Centre.

  • New York May 2017

    Kim Kardashian attends the Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City wearing a Vivienne Westwood dress from her archive.

  • Autumn/winter 2020-21, Paris

    In a tribute on her Instagram following the death of Westwood, Bella Hadid wrote: “From the first day I met you to the last day I saw you, you made me smile, listen, learn and love more than the day before. I will forever be grateful to have been in your orbit, because to me and most , in fashion & in humanity, you, Vivienne, were the sun.”

  • Spring/summer 2023, Paris

    Irina Shayk on the runway.

  • Autumn/winter 2013-14

    A model walks the runway during the Vivienne Westwood ready-to-wear show.

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