Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood is the most important British fashion designer of the twentieth century and the most politically engaged — a designer who has used fashion as a vehicle for protest (against the nuclear industry, against climate change, against the fashion industry itself) with the same seriousness and the same craft with which she has revived the techniques of eighteenth-century tailoring, constructed corsets as sculpture, and built a global brand from a position of complete creative independence.

This authoritative monograph by Claire Wilcox — curator of the major Westwood retrospective at the V&A — presents the complete Westwood career with the scholarly depth and visual richness it deserves.

The essential Westwood reference. Published by Thames & Hudson.