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Self-Taught Designer Was
'Worthy of a Couture House'

OBITUARY

Nov 27, 2025 1:43 PM CST

Self-Taught Designer Was 'Worthy of a Couture House'

Fashion designer Pam Hogg, who reinvented the catsuit, dies in hospice

(Newser) - Pam Hogg, the self-taught designer widely credited with shaping Britain's countercultural fashion scene since the early 1980s, has died, her family announced Wednesday on Instagram . Hogg, who did not publicly reveal her age, was believed to be in her 60s, per the BBC . The statement said she died peacefully,...

She 'Gave the Punk
Movement a Look'

OBITUARY

Dec 30, 2022 3:12 AM CST

She 'Gave the Punk Movement a Look'

Fashion maverick Vivienne Westwood dies at 81

(Newser) - Vivienne Westwood, an influential fashion maverick who played a key role in the punk movement, died Thursday at 81. Westwood's eponymous fashion house announced her death on social media platforms, saying she died peacefully. A cause of death was not disclosed. "Vivienne continued to do the things she...

Vivienne Westwood's Beauty Secret: Bathing Just 52 Times a Year

Fashion Designer
Comes Clean on
Her Youthful Glow

Fashion Designer Comes Clean on Her Youthful Glow

Vivienne Westwood reveals she only bathes once a week

(Newser) - Vivienne Westwood is known for her punk and new-wave style, and now also for her hygiene habits. The Guardian reports the 76-year-old British fashion designer was in Paris over the weekend for Fashion Week, and after her show put together with husband Andreas Kronthaler, Westwood was asked by reporters how...

Kate Middleton 'Ordinary,' Says Fashion Designer Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood Has Harsh Words
for Kate

Aug 9, 2011 10:25 AM CDT

Vivienne Westwood Has Harsh Words for Kate

Designer slams her eye makeup, for one...

(Newser) - Kate Middleton is a style icon, right? Wrong, says fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. The Duchess of Cambridge projects the image of an "ordinary woman," not the "extraordinary woman" she should be, Westwood complains to Britain's Sunday Times Magazine in an interview picked up by Australia's...

How Skulls
Took Over
Fashion

SLIDESHOW

Oct 30, 2009 11:08 AM CDT

How Skulls Took Over Fashion

Once scary, now stylish, skulls are trendy—and not just at Halloween

(Newser) - Skulls, once seen as sinister symbols, are now used on everything from children's shirts to underwear. Sara Dickerman of Slate takes a look at how the trend developed:

In the 16th century, artists like Albrecht Dürer were still using skulls to remind people of their mortality.
French pirate Emanuel

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Fashion Icon Enlists Kiddies

Feb 28, 2008 3:12 PM CST

Fashion Icon Enlists Kiddies

Designer Westwood collaborates with 7-year-olds for Paris show

(Newser) - Children proved the future indeed for Vivienne Westwood at this year's Paris Fashion Week, with the British designer enlisting three dozen 7-year-olds to help with her latest collection. The British schoolkids painted bugs, plants, and snakes on Westwood’s eco-minded show "Chaos Point," which took to the runway...