Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood opened her King's Road boutique 'Let It Rock' in 1971 and created the visual language of punk fashion — bondage trousers, ripped fabric, safety pins, and tartan — that became one of the most influential aesthetic movements in 20th-century culture. Appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006, she spent her final decades as a prominent environmental activist before her death in 2022.