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Westwood’s career in fashion was galvanised by McLaren and together they launched memorable fashion moments, including Punk in the early 1970s and later their Pirates collection. McLaren and Westwood conducted a design relationship between 1971 and 1983. In 1990 and again in 1991 Vivienne Westwood was named British Designer of the Year; she has also received an OBE.\r\n\r\nWestwood’s unique mix of practicality and inventiveness, her preoccupation with silhouette and the manner in which she manipulates fabrics result in dynamic fashion. Westwood herself once said, 'You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes.’ \r\n\r\nThis dress of slashed red voile reflects Westwood’s fascination with historical dress. In this case, Westwood looked to Tudor portraiture for inspiration, and the seventeenth century practice of slashing silk fabrics. 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