Vivienne Westwood to launch authorised biography in 2014

 

Vivienne Westwood has announced the launch of an authorised biography set to launch in October 2014. For the first and only time, she is both writing and collaborating on a unique personal memoir and authorised biography: partly her own voice, partly through contributions from her vast network of friends, family and associates. Biographer Ian Kelly brings the insights of a historian and friend of Vivienne to the life and works of this collaboration. Her eclectic group of friends, activists and confrères range from Pamela Anderson to Prince Charles, Shami Chakrabati, Naomi Campbell, Jerry Hall, Bob Geldof and Julian Assange; many of them contribute unique letters and stories to this work, along with those of her close family and her design partner and husband, Andreas Kronthaler. Vivienne Westwood’s authorised life story will be published by Picador in hardback, October 2014.

 

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