Vivienne Westwood: Do It Yourself! Mar 4, 2011

Vivienne Westwood, fashion icon. Her visionary embrace of punk fashion (safety pins, bondage gear and spiked collars) and love of tartan gave her designs an unequivocal Westwood stamp in 1970s. Always politically engaged, the three-times British Designer of the Year has become an outspoken civil rights and climate change activist.