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Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood

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Reading Vivienne's thoughts, in her own words, is as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britain's punk dame - a woman who always says exactly what she believes.

I’ve been a supporter of Leonard, a Native American who has been wrongly imprisoned for 35 years, for a long time. She knows she thinks differently than the status quo, and because of that, she sometimes must explain herself.

I wish she'd simply written a real diary rather than 'dictated' one for an audience, as it feels to me in this case. Beginning with a great sweep through those early decades of activism and fashion (activism in fashion) – rebelling through clothes at 430, Kings Road; plundering history for the Pirates collection; quietly shaping a manifesto that would later evolve into the Climate Revolution project – the idea is to access Vivienne’s point of view. Fashion designer, political activist, national icon: Vivienne Westwood sets down her unique vision of the world in her blog, Get A Life. I will surely remember this book but found it naive sometimes to believe you can do anything to influence few thousands people in the world who rule 7 billion. At yoga, I suddenly had the stunning revelation that Alice in Wonderland, a book written by Lewis Carroll, actually proves Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Very motivating read, to Vivennes's way of thinking and the time she devotes for environmental causes. Not only was Vivienne Westwood a punk icon and fashion inventor, she was also an activist for climate change and a major supporter and friend of Julian Assange. Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI (born Vivienne Isabel Swire) was a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. I decided to donate some money to the Green party, but now they are thinking of giving it back, having discovered I have a Luxembourg company that minimises my tax liabilities. Sometimes u may feel that her diaries are very hectic hence even more I'm proud of myself to get to the end of it and not dropping earlier.Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Reading Vivienne’s thoughts, in her own words, is as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britain’s punk dame – a woman who always says exactly what she believes. Her thinking on culture and the importance of engaging with the world to develop culture (not consumption) was very clear and inspiring. Spanning six years of Climate Revolution, fashion and activism, the book is as provocative as you would expect from Britain’s punk dame.

What we have here then is a story of the last six years of Climate Revolution and the journey that got us there. She lives a busy, busy life - and as she records her daily routine we begin to get to know this woman - in an intimate productive way.

Vivienne does not talk about Fashion as long as it's not connected to her second (if not first) love in her life which is climate revolution and politics.

Westwood advanced from OBE to DBE in the 2006 New Year's Honours List for services to fashion,and had thrice earned the award for British Designer of the Year. Then again, Vivienne might be hanging out with her friend Pamela Anderson, or in India for Naomi Campbell's birthday party, or watching Black Sabbath in Hyde Park with Sharon Osbourne. remarked many times by Lee and John as the the one who introduced punk to fashion in the 70's and 80's. Dame Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age: fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother. I liked this but I didn't rate it higher only because I didn't always agree with some of her ideas and sweeping generalisations.While the diary was written, primarily, with the intention of warning people of the danger we’re in from climate change (a subject that feels particularly pertinent given fracking’s recent UK go-ahead, despite a rejection from Lancashire council), it is, as Vivienne puts it, also a great thing to do for yourself. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment. Before I read this book, I think I just kind of figured that fashion designers were just high-class citizens who uphold a bourgeois status, not really socially and culturally aware. Get a Lifeis a fresh, unpredictable look at the life of one of the most influential artists and campaigners of our times. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions across the world.

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