Editing Vivienne Westwood (section)

===Julian Assange and WikiLeaks===
Westwood was a longtime supporter of [[Julian Assange]] and [[WikiLeaks]], and called for his release from custody.<ref>{{Cite web|date=30 April 2020 |title=EXCLUSIVE interview: Dame Vivienne Westwood & Joe Corré in defence of Julian Assange|url=https://the-shortlisted.co.uk/vivienne-westwood-joe-corre-defence-julian-assange-interview/|access-date=26 July 2021|website=The Shortlisted|language=en-GB}}</ref> In June 2013, Westwood dedicated one of her collections to [[Chelsea Manning]] and at her fashion show she and all her models wore large image badges of Manning with the word "Truth" under her picture. In 2012, she used her appearances at [[London Fashion Week]] to push for Assange's release by presenting "I am Julian Assange" t-shirts.<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Snead|first1=Elizabeth|date=29 October 2012|title=Vivienne Westwood Aids WikiLeaks With 'I Am Julian Assange' T-Shirts (Poll)|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/vivienne-westwood-wikileaks-julian-assange-t-shirts-384039/|access-date=26 July 2021|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}}</ref> She visited him several times during his [[Right of asylum|political asylum]] at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and in [[HM Prison Belmarsh|Belmarsh Prison]] after his arrest in April 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood visits Assange: "He's a freedom fighter!" |url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/12/assa-s12.html |access-date=26 July 2021|website=World Socialist Web Site|date=12 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref> In July 2020, she protested outside London's [[Old Bailey]] court against Assange's possible extradition to the United States by wearing a yellow pantsuit and suspending herself in a giant birdcage. Describing herself as the [[Canary in a coal mine|canary in the coal mine]], she said she was "half-poisoned already from government corruption of law and gaming of the legal system by government".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holland |first1=Oscar |title=Vivienne Westwood suspends herself in giant birdcage to protest Assange's extradition |url=https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/vivienne-westwood-assange-protest/index.html |access-date=28 July 2020 |publisher=CNN |language=en}}</ref>

For Assange's wedding to Stella Moris in March 2022 in [[Belmarsh Prison]], the groom wore an outfit based on a Scottish kilt and the bride a dress with a graffiti application, both designs by Westwood and her husband, Austrian fashion designer Andreas Kronthaler.<ref>"[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/vivienne-westwood-julian-assange-wedding-b2042109.html Vivienne Westwood has designed Julian Assange and his fiancee's wedding outfits]", ''[[The Independent]]'', 22 March 2022</ref>