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Bomb damage to High Street in Birmingham the day after an air raid on the night of 9 April 1941. Photo © Trinity Mirror / Mirrorpix / Alamy

Vivienne Westwood aged 15, c. 1956. Image courtesy of Vivienne Westwood Archives

Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood outside Bow Street Magistrates’ Court, London, 1977. Photo © Daily Mirror / Bill Kennedy / Mirrorpix via Getty Images

British rock group the Who – (left to right) bassist John Entwistle, drummer Keith Moon, guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey – featured in Vogue magazine, 1969. Photo © Jack Robinson / Hulton Archive via Getty Images

A rocker combs his hair using the mirror of a mod’s scooter, Clacton seafront, Essex, 30 March 1964. Photo © Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Mirrorpix via Getty Images

A selection of winter fashions by British designers Ossie Clark and Alice Pollock, worn by models posing in a London street, 4 April 1967. Photo © Ron Case / Keystone via Getty Images

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Aerial view of Tokyo razed by American bombing carried out on the evening of 9 March 1945 by 334 B-29 Super Flying Fortresses. Photo © Mondadori via Getty Images

Tokyo skyline at night, c. 1964. Photo © John Bulmer / Popperfoto via Getty Images

Chilean model Marta Montt wearing an ensemble by Hanae Mori, photographed for Vogue, 1 March 1969. Photo © Raymundo de Larrain / Conde Nast via Getty Images

English model Twiggy during a fashion show at the Osaka Royal Hotel, Japan, 21 October 1967. Photo © Rolls Press / Popperfoto via Getty Images

Women wearing miniskirts, Ginza district, Tokyo, c. April 1968. Photo © Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images

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Let It Rock shopfront, photographed for an an magazine, July 1972. Photo © Masayoshi Sukita

Members of the UK branch of the Gay Liberation Front carry placards during a protest along Essex Street, London, 12 February 1971. Photo © Evening Standard / Hulton Archive via Getty Images

Jordan (born Pamela Rooke) standing outside of the SEX shopfront, 1976. Photo © Jane England

Vivienne Westwood with Jordan and another punk, London, 12 April 1977. Photo © Tim Jenkins / WWD / Penske Media via Getty Images

Vivienne Westwood, Jordan and members of the Sex Pistols inside Seditionaries on the BBC TV program Just a Nimmo, broadcast 24 March 1977 © BBC

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The first Comme des Garçons flagship store, Minami-Aoyama district, Tokyo, 1976. Photo: Unknown

Women’s liberation movement protest, Japan, 1972, from Michiko Matsumoto’s Women Come Alive series of photographs, 1975. Photo © Michiko Matsumoto

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Worlds End Outfits from the Pirate collection, autumn–winter 1981–82, London, March 1981. Photo © Robyn Beeche

Outside the Nostalgia of Mud shop, St Christopher’s Place, London, 1982. Photo © Robyn Beeche

Worlds End Outfit from the Witches collection, autumn–winter 1983–84, Paris, March 1983. Photo: Unknown. Image courtesy of Vivienne Westwood Archives

Vivienne Westwood logo, c. 1991. Photo: Predrag Cancar / NGV

Princess Diana wearing boots, white trousers, a blazer jacket and a baseball cap after taking her sons to school at Wetherby, near Leeds, 25 April 1989. Photo © Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix via Getty Images

Left to right: Trojan (born Gary Barnes), Lana Pellay (Lanah P) and Leigh Bowery, London, 1985. Photo © Jane Simon via Getty Images

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Comme des Garçons Jumper, from the Holes collection, autumn–winter 1982–83, Paris, 1982. Photo © Peter Lindbergh. Model: Linda Sperrings

Placard for the first collection Kawakubo showed in Paris (autumn–winter 1981–82), April 1981. Photo: Unknown

Feature on Comme des Garçons and other Japanese designers in The New York Times, June 1982 © 1982 The New York Times. All rights reserved

Comme des Garçons store in Soho, New York, c. 1989. Photo © Fairchild Archive / Penske Media via Getty Images

Comme des Garçons Outfit from the Round Rubber collection, spring–summer 1984, Paris, 1984. Photo © Michel Arnaud. ASU FIDM Museum Collection, gift of Arnaud Associates. Image courtesy of Arizona State University

Jean-Michel Basquiat walking for Comme des Garçons Homme’s spring–summer 1987 collection presentation in 1986. Courtesy of Comme des Garçons

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Vivienne Westwood Outfits from the Portrait collection, autumn–winter 1990–91, London, March 1990. Photo © Robyn Beeche. Models: Susie Bick and Denise D. Lewis

Vivienne Westwood Outfit 1990 (detail), from the Cut and Slash collection, spring–summer 1991. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased, 1995

Vivienne Westwood at Buckingham Palace, London, where she received her OBE from Queen Elizabeth II. Photo © Martin Keene – PA Images / PA Images via Getty Images

Naomi Campbell falls on the runway during the presentation of Vivienne Westwood’s Anglomania collection, autumn–winter 1993–94, Paris, 1993. Photo © Sheridan Morley via Shutterstock. Model: Naomi Campbell

Kate Moss in a micro miniskirt on the runway in 1993 for Vivienne Westwood’s Café Society collection. Photo © ARNAL / GARCIA / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

The band Nirvana (left to right: drummer Dave Grohl, guitarist and lead singer Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic) in Germany, 12 November 1991. Photo © Paul Bergen / Redferns via Getty Images

Left to right: Supermodels Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford, photographed by Peter Lindbergh for British Vogue, 1990. Photo © Peter Lindbergh

Ravers at the Eclipse nightclub, Coventry, England, 1991. Photo © Tony Davis / British Culture Archive

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Comme des Garçons Outfit from the Chic Punk collection, autumn–winter 1991–92. Photo: Unknown

Comme des Garçons Outfit from the Lilith collection, autumn–winter 1992–93. Photo © Guy Marineau

Comme des Garçons Outfit from the Metamorphosis collection, autumn–winter 1994–95. Photo © Guy Marineau

Comme des Garçons Outfit from the Transcending Gender collection, spring–summer 1995. Photo © Guy Marineau

Dealing counter at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 20 November 1991. The Nikkei Stock Average lost 252.00 yen to 23,074.86 yen during a two-hour morning session in the wake of overnight declines on Wall Street. Photo © Toru Yamanaka / AFP via Getty Images

Street fashion portrait of Asami and Hide, c. 1990s. Photo © Shoichi Aoki

Merce Cunningham, Scenario (excerpts), Brooklyn Academy of Music, 14 October 1997. Courtesy of Merce Cunningham Trust and Hamm Archives, Brooklyn Academy of Music

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Kate Moss wearing Pirate collection boots, Los Angeles, California, 3 November 2000. Photo © Bauer-Griffin / GC Images via Getty Images

Vivienne Westwood poses for photographers after collecting her insignia from the Prince of Wales during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London, 9 June 2006. Photo © Fiona Hanson / POOL / AFP via Getty Images

Sarah Jessica Parker wearing a Vivienne Westwood wedding gown on the set of Sex and the City: The Movie, New York, 12 October 2007. Photo © James Devaney / WireImage via Getty Images

A model walks down the catwalk showcasing Vivienne Westwood’s Gold Label Collection during the Chaos Point Gala Dinner, held in collaboration with the London Musici Orchestra in aid of the NSPCC, at The Banqueting House, Whitehall, London, 18 November 2008. Photo © Dave M. Benett via Getty Images

Vivienne Westwood Outfit from the +5 ° collection, autumn–winter 2009–10, Paris, March 2009. Photo © Francois Durand via Getty Images. Model: Pamela Anderson

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Comme des Garçons Look 20, from the Wonderland collection, autumn–winter 2009–10, Paris, March 2009. Photo © firstVIEW. Model: Maria Pia Bongoll

Comme PLAY logo, designed by Filip Pagowski. Image courtesy of Comme des Garçons

Dover Street Market, Mayfair, London, 2015. Image courtesy of Comme des Garçons

Comme des Garçons Outfit from the Cubisme collection, spring–summer 2007. Photo © Craig McDean. Model: Cara Taylor

Comme des Garçons ‘guerilla’ store, Warsaw, Poland, 2007. Image courtesy of Comme des Garçons

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Vivienne Westwood’s spring–summer 2019 lookbook. Photo © Hedvig Jenning

Vivienne Westwood in Kenya during the production of her autumn–winter 2012–13 collection. Photo © Chloe Mukai

Vivienne Westwood’s 2016 Mirror the World campaign. Photo © Juergen Teller

Vivienne Westwood (centre) and her ‘Fash Mob’ prior to her spring–summer show at London Fashion Week, 2015. Photo © Ki Price

Vivienne Westwood launches the Save the Arctic exhibition at London’s Waterloo station, 2015. Courtesy of Greenpeace

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Rei Kawakubo backstage at the spring–summer 2014 Not Making Clothing show. Photo © Ilker Akyol

Rei Kawakubo, quoted in System, no. 2, autumn–winter 2013

Paolo Roversi Anna, Paris 2015 © Paolo Roversi. Model: Anna Cleveland

Rihanna wearing Comme des Garçons at the Met Gala, 2017. Photo © Francois Durand via Getty Images