Vivienne Westwood, photographed by Ki Price on a beach in Wales to protest fracking across the United Kingdom.

Westwood striking outside the London headquarters of INEOS, Europe’s top ethylene producer.

A model posing backstage at Westwood’s Autumn-Winter 2022/23 show in Poole, U.K.

*Top,* Westwood during London Fashion Week in 2016; *above*, with her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, reviewing looks during Paris Fashion Week.

The model Irina Shayk in an Autumn-Winter 2023/24 Vivienne Westwood dress in Paris.

Behind the scenes of a 2016 fashion show at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

Cora Corré, center, Westwood’s granddaughter, with other models during Paris Fashion Week in 2023.

*Top,* Kronthaler and Westwood at the London launch of her first memoir; *above,* driving a tank to David Cameron’s home in an anti-fracking protest.

A model backstage at the Vivienne Westwood show during London Fashion Week in 2016.

Bella Hadid walking the runway at Westwood’s Spring-Summer 2020 presentation in Paris.

Westwood at a protest in Lancashire, U.K. A piece of paper hanging from her necklace reads, “Too fast to live, too young to die.”

From Radical to Dame and Back Again

The photographer Ki Price’s portraits of Vivienne Westwood pay homage to Britain’s punk poster child turned couture designer in celebration of her birthday

“She was tough, quite fierce,” says the British photographer Ki Price of Dame Vivienne Westwood. “But it was amazing to work with someone who always knew what she wanted.”

Westwood was fierce from the get-go, those days in the early 60s when she worked as a primary-school teacher while also selling her jewelry designs at a stall in Portobello Road. In 1965, she left her husband, Derek Westwood, and soon after met Malcolm McLaren, who would manage the Sex Pistols and who convinced Westwood to give up her day job and join him in running a boutique in 1972. Together they set up shop in Chelsea and made clothes.