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She has provoked outrage, amusement and ultimately respect. Her overriding gift to fashion is a conviction that clothing can change the way people think. She once said: ‘I think that the real link that connects all my clothes is this idea of the heroic'. As a self-taught designer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Westwood has brought an utterly original slant to fashion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and been responsible for many fashion ideas that are now taken for granted. Although her clothes are often revolutionary,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], she has embraced traditional British fabrics and materials,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and made them her own. While her work in the 1980s,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], post Punk,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was wildly eclectic,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the dominant theme of the 1990s was historicism. Westwood is ambitious for her craft. She has great faith in fashion as personal propaganda,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as mental and physical stimulation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], saying ‘clothes can give you a better life'.
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] was born in Derbyshire in 1941. Her family moved to London when she was a teenager and in 1965 she met art student Malcolm McLaren. Their working relationship lasted from 1970 until 1983,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and memorably launched Punk. Fashion became for Westwood ‘a baby I picked up and never put down'. Between 1971 and 1981 the couple ran a shop at 430 Kings Road in London which became the centre of the emerging Punk movement.