Editing Vivienne Westwood (section)

===Early years===
Westwood was born in [[Hollingworth]], Cheshire,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.showstudio.com/news/the-vivienne-westwood-family-return-home-for-tintwistle-campaign|title=The Vivienne Westwood Family Return Home for Tintwistle Campaign |website=www.showstudio.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-KptFTtpC3QC&dq=%22vivienne+westwood%22+Millbrook,+Hollingworth&pg=PT13 |title= Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life|last=Mulvagh |first=Jane |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0007-5151-27}}</ref> on 8 April 1941.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/history-culture/vivienne-westwood|title=Vivienne Westwood - Clothes, Career & Life|date=25 May 2021|website=Biography}}</ref><ref name="grande dame">{{cite news|author=Susannah Frankel|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/meet-the-grande-dame-of-glossop-743124.html|title=Meet the grande dame of Glossop|work=The Independent|date=20 October 1999|access-date=30 March 2010|location=London, England}}</ref> She grew up in nearby [[Tintwistle]], and was the daughter of Gordon Swire and Dora Swire (née Ball), who had married two years previously, two weeks after the outbreak of the [[Second World War]].<ref name="detective">{{cite news|author=Nick Barratt|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3631589/Family-detective.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3631589/Family-detective.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Family detective|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=24 February 2007|access-date=30 March 2010|location=London, England}}{{cbignore}}</ref> At the time of Vivienne's birth, her father was employed as a storekeeper in an aircraft factory; he had previously worked as a greengrocer.<ref name="detective"/>

In 1958, her family moved to [[Harrow, London|Harrow]], Greater London. Westwood took a jewellery and silversmith course at the [[University of Westminster]], then known as the Harrow Art School,<ref>{{cite web |date=24 September 2015 |title=Vivienne Westwood chooses University of Westminster for London Fashion Week catwalk show |url=https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/vivienne-westwood-chooses-university-of-westminster-for-london-fashion-week-catwalk-show |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102004257/https://www.westminster.ac.uk/news/vivienne-westwood-chooses-university-of-westminster-for-london-fashion-week-catwalk-show |archive-date=2 November 2019 |access-date=1 November 2019 |publisher=University of Westminster}}</ref> but left after one term, saying: "I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world".<ref>{{cite web |title=Vivienne Westwood – The Early Years |url=http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1231_vivienne_westwood/text_panel_r1_01.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108102427/https://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1231_vivienne_westwood/text_panel_r1_01.html |archive-date=8 January 2011 |access-date=30 March 2010 |publisher=Victoria and Albert Museum}}</ref> After taking a job in a factory and studying at a teacher-training college, she became a primary-school teacher. During this period, she created her own jewellery, which she sold at a stall on [[Portobello Road]].<ref name="grande dame"/>

In 1962, she met Derek Westwood, an apprentice at the Hoover factory, in Harrow.<ref name="disgracefully yours">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/vivienne-westwood-disgracefully-yours-the-queen-mother-of-fashion-178866.html|title=Vivienne Westwood: Disgracefully yours, the Queen Mother of Fashion|work=The Independent|date=2 June 2002|access-date=31 March 2010|location=London, England}}</ref> They married on 21 July 1962; Westwood made her own wedding dress.<ref name="disgracefully yours"/> In 1963, she gave birth to a son, Benjamin.<ref name="disgracefully yours"/>