I have few famous people stories. One of the few good ones is I managed a meal for Vivienne Westwood. She was alright. Her entourage were cunts.
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Still find her appearance on Ross when he was still on the beeb one of the weirdest things ever. Went something like âI was sat at home and saw something by Greenpeace on Climate Change and thought I had to tell people about it so here I amâ
Private Eye had a go at her a fair few times as well.
She seemed alright 
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Just bought my missus a necklace from her shop (Vivienneâs I mean).
- RIP. (Also Vivienne)
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Friend of mine used to work for her. By all accounts a GBOL. Let her take a few garments with her when she left
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One of those people who genuinely changed British culture from the street level up & was a true one-of-a-kind
RIP Viv
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Ah what a legend RIP
Sad news. A very inspirational person.
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The godmother of âPunkâ fwiw
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Have always had a soft spot for her clothes/aesthetic, and while she was probs far from perfect i will always appreciate her campaigning to get a friend of a friendâs husband out of a Russian prison a few years back
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The fashion was rock and roll, nothing less than that. I always admired it.
Side note, but there was a shop in Oasis in Birmingham in the 80âs, itâs still there, collection of stalls, but in the 80âs it was essential. There was one stall selling T-Shirts in a VW style, high colour, visual, direct. I bought a Hilda Ogden T-Shirt, loved it and spoke to the couple that ran the stall a lot. They would have been about 21, I was 15. They had a T-Shirt of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady with like a Punk sermon printed over it, it was obviously a (very dark) joke, but they got front page press in the evening mail, a Birmingham newspaper and they were put out of business. You push boundaries and the press will take art down. I wore that t-shirt to Glastonbury in 1986 (Hilda Ogden) and the amount of people that asked me where I got it from I still remember well.
I went to Solihull Library when I was around 15, and there was a walkway to get into the library, indoors. In there was an elderly woman collecting money for charity. I thought, Iâll pop 10p in there, why not. The woman looked at me and asked me my name, I replied, puzzled with my name and she signed a picture of Hilda Ogden⌠then there was the most beautiful moment, which I will never forget, where she realised, that I realised who she was. She didnât say anything, just smiled and said thank you. In real life she looked like royalty. No idea what I am talking about now. Bed.
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Iâm sad about this. I started wearing vivienne westwood clothes probably in 1998, in Norwich they are sold in a shop called phillip browne. They were so important to me moving into a weirder and more alternative style. I had a lot of Anglomania t-shirts before getting main line pieces. I think the style was a big part of my identity, going to dance clubs, coming out as bi and they just looked pretty cool. I havenât bought anything for probably 10 years, but my favourite shirt is still a vivienne westwood piece which I wore to a club just before Christmas because I wanted to feel sexy and cool and it is an unusual style of shirt. Her ideas really changed things in fashion.
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She doesnât suit being dead 
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Iâm fascinated by the spat that she had with Derek Jarman, which led to this petty homophobic slogan shirt
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An anger inducing time capsule - but Vivienne comes out shining
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As well as being relieved JSP came down on the right side, watching it again brought to mind that Grace Jones interview.
And then, lo, in the comments.
Didnât know that was actually the same guy in both situations.
Very petty behaviour from, apparently, an arts broadcaster who had won an Emmy for a documentary on Salvador DalĂ and had seemingly famously interviewed Marc Bolan sixteen years prior. And from, it would seem, a gay man, about whom, at his funeral, Alan Bennett commented that âthe gutter press had finished Harty offâ you might expect a more enlightened viewpoint.
Sorry for the slight diversion, there.
RIP VW.
This clip actually really upset me for some reason. Just reminded me of school and people mocking stuff that isnât for them and that they donât understand. Glad JSP stood up for her.