This spring, The Bowes Museum, home to one of the UK's largest fashion collections, will stage a major retrospective devoted to Vivienne Westwood (1941–2022). Spanning the early 1980s through to the 2000s, Vivienne Westwood: Rebel – Storyteller – Visionary...
“The 18th century is the high point of art and culture”- Dame Vivienne WestwoodThe impact of 18th century art and design on the work of distinguished British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood is celebrated in a new exhibition at Danson House this spring....
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled its latest commissioned portrait – a photograph of Dame Vivienne Westwood in her garden by artist and photographer Juergen Teller. Commissioned by gallery and exhibited as London Fashion Week draws to a close, the work...
Dame Vivienne Westwood has spoken out against the state of British Fashion today, arguing that we are the worst dressed in historySpeaking amid the festivities of London Fashion Week, Westwood exclaimed that ‘People have never looked so ugly’. ‘In...
Joe Corre, the son of Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, has set fire to items on the 40th anniversary of the Sex Pistols debut single. The Punk memorabilia said to be worth £5m ($6m) was torched in the middle of the River...
2026 promises an exciting new programme of art exhibitions opening in London. Artlyst has put together a month-by-month guide to steer you through this plethora of exhibitions. 2026 will see solo shows by Modern British and Contemporary greats Lucian Freud, David...
Jane Bown liked to say that other photographers took pictures; she found them. Employed on the staff of the Sunday newspaper, The Observer, for nearly 60 years, she compiled a visual who's-who of British cultural and social life in the second half of the 20th century....
Soo Catwoman, a Punk style icon of the 1970s, has died at the age of 70. With her shaved skull flanked by two sharp black tufts of hair — feline, defiant — she became one of the most recognisable women in British punk. Her look and the attitude that came with it...
The V&A's new working store and visitor attraction, V&A East Storehouse, opens to the public on 31 May 2025. It follows 10 years of planning and extensive audience consultation, with input from V&A East’s Youth Collective. Designed by world-renowned...