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I don't want anyone to think I'm an opera fan because I'm not

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I don't want anyone to think I'm an opera fan because I'm not. I think it's kitsch and ridiculous..." In particular, she adds, "I can't stand Verdi".When the Kronthalers aren't going to galleries or the theatre, "Andreas really likes home life He loves my cooking But I shouldn't talk about domestic bliss too much. They met when he was a student and she a teacher (he is 25 years her junior), and have lived and worked together since He is clearly hugely instrumental in the design process. Westwood credits the signature overblown ballgown to Kronthaler, and there is at least one look in the exhibition catalogue that is attributed entirely to him.

They have been together for "a good 15 years", but when Westwood talks about him, her eyes light up and she positively quivers with the excitement of it all."First of all, he's a very gentle person," she says "I've never quarrelled with him. And they should play on their vulnerability and cry or whatever to get their own way."Her partnership with McLaren, however significant, pales into insignificance alongside the one that she now enjoys with her husband, the aforementioned Kronthaler. And her views on women and their role in society are notorious. "I think women can be icons of beauty, hourglasses of femininity, teetering along on high heels and everything. At around this time, she met Malcolm McLaren, then called Malcolm Edwards, and became pregnant with her second son, Joseph (who now runs Agent Provocateur with his wife.) In 1971, McLaren decided to open a shop and Westwood filled it. "I intended to go to university, but I started to help Malcolm..." And the rest is history.Vivienne Westwood is the first to admit that her relationships with men have been formative in creative terms. It was like a lava crust, and if you broke it you'd go down to the hellfire And I believe that.

You have to behave nicely to people, even if it is hypocritical."When she was 17, her parents bought a post office and moved south, to Harrow in Middlesex. After working in a factory for a short while, Westwood went to teacher-training college, and then taught for a year ("I always liked the naughty ones") before marrying Derek Westwood and having her first child, Ben. The marriage lasted three years, with Westwood continuing to teach while making her own jewellery, which she sold on a stall in Portobello Road. He believed that society was a sort of crust, and that behaviour was terribly important, and that if people didn't have this set decorum, this mode of communication, they were beasts. But I could sense from an early age that I was less conservative than my parents."Today, Westwood is passionate about the arts. Her conversation is littered with references to her cultural heroes, Aldous Huxley and Bertrand Russell in particular. "I don't really like Joseph Conrad, but he believed in decorum and he was always immaculately and conservatively dressed.

Only very few fashion designers have changed the way women, and, indeed, men, dress. Vivienne Westwood - along with Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent - is one.And like Chanel, Westwood had humble origins. She was born Vivienne Isabel Swire, in Glossop, Derbyshire, on 8 April 1941. Her father came from a long line of cobblers, her mother worked in the local cotton mills.

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