Back in the early 1970s, when the hippie aesthetic still reigned, Vivienne Westwood was already engineering the outre clothes and accessories that would carry the punk movement across England a half-decade later. Today, Westwood continues to play the role of the fashion world's preeminent iconoclast; her collections are at once theatrical, irreverent, and wholly original. This insightful all-color volume vividly documents both the keen intelligence and the exuberant originality of Vivienne Westwood's career and fashion vision.