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FASHION DESIGNER

Vivienne Westwood

1941 - 2022

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Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (née Swire; 8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022) was a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. In 2022, Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the last 50 years. Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for the boutique that she and Malcolm McLaren ran on King's Road, which became known as Sex. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vivienne Westwood has received more than 5,458,700 page views. Her biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Vivienne Westwood is the 7th most popular fashion designer (up from 8th in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 480th in 2019) and the most popular British Fashion Designer.

Vivienne Westwood is most famous for her designs for the punk movement in the 1970s.

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  • 5.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS

Among fashion designers, Vivienne Westwood ranks 7 out of 38. Before her are Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, and Calvin Klein. After her are Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Donatella Versace, Thierry Mugler, and Hubert de Givenchy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Vivienne Westwood ranks 28. Before her are Robert Forster, Faye Dunaway, Franco Nero, Nona Gaprindashvili, Jon Lord, and Julia Kristeva. After her are Viktor Zubkov, Václav Klaus, Jon Brower Minnoch, Paul Simon, Fausto Cercignani, and Flórián Albert. Among people deceased in 2022, Vivienne Westwood ranks 19. Before her are Thích Nhất Hạnh, Kane Tanaka, Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, and Madeleine Albright. After her are Ayman al-Zawahiri, José Eduardo dos Santos, Angela Lansbury, Shinzō Abe, Dietrich Mateschitz, and Yusuf al-Qaradawi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Vivienne Westwood ranks 340 out of 7,765. Before her are Bartholomew Roberts (1682), Rod Stewart (1945), Henry Moseley (1887), William Hogarth (1697), Christopher Marlowe (1564), and Enid Blyton (1897). After her are Ian Gillan (1945), Marie of Romania (1875), Tristan (535), Anne Hathaway (1556), Thomas Paine (1737), and Jackie Stewart (1939).

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Among FASHION DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among fashion designers born in United Kingdom, Vivienne Westwood ranks 1. After her are Charles Frederick Worth (1825), Mary Quant (1930), Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863), and Sarah Burton (1974).

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