{"id":12405,"date":"2022-12-29T13:57:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T20:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12405"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:14:34","slug":"vivienne-westwood-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/29\/vivienne-westwood-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivienne Westwood Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2022-12-29\/vivienne-westwood-fashion-designer-punk-icon-dead-81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The LA Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fashion designer and punk icon Vivienne Westwood dies at 81<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/jonah-valdez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JONAH VALDEZ<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The History of Vivienne Westwood\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yqOkbmfMM2k?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, known for popularizing British punk and new wave fashion, died Thursday at age 81.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A major icon in the early British punk scene of the 1970s, Westwood went on to enjoy a long career highlighted by a string of triumphant runway shows in London, Paris, Milan and New York. Westwood\u2019s work, which was often marked by her antiestablishment values, adorned the bodies of numerous celebrities, those on the red carpets of Hollywood as well as those in the British royal family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2018 review of a Westwood documentary, The Times\u2019 Kenneth Turan described her as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/la-et-mn-westwood-punk-icon-activist-review-20180614-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a woman of formidable energy and drive<\/a>&nbsp;whether she is tearing apart one of her own fashion collections the night before her show or passionately advocating for environmental issues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2022-12-29\/vivienne-westwood-fashion-designer-punk-icon-dead-81\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to read full article at LAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times Fashion designer and punk icon Vivienne Westwood dies at 81 BY&nbsp;JONAH VALDEZ Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, known for popularizing British punk and new wave fashion, died Thursday at age 81. A major icon in the early British punk scene of the 1970s, Westwood went on to enjoy a long career highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}