Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, Victoria Beckham, and others gather at Southwark Cathedral to pay tribute to the late Vivienne Westwood.
, who, accompanied by a guitarist, delivered Buddy Holly’s “Raining in My Heart” low and pure.
The service began and ended with performances by Arnfield Brass, a brass band local to Westwood’s birthplace near Tintwistle, Derbyshire, that had played at her funeral there in January. The welcome was provided by Reverend Andrew Nunn, the dean of Southwark., Westwood’s husband. Movingly, he told two stories about his wife, one from either side of their time together. The first was from 1988, when he was a student of fashion in Vienna and she was his teacher and they began their relationship.
Westwood’s younger son, Joseph Corré, came next and revealed some fascinating details about the formation of his mother’s iconoclastic spirit. He said that although Westwood was “not a religious person,” her shock at learning while a child in Derbyshire the story of Jesus Christ had aroused in her a burning passion to battle injustice.
Later she said: “Fashion: I really love doing it. It’s really a kind of lifeline to me. It’s recharging my batteries. It’s exciting. I love what we’re doing, and I think the next thing we are doing is the best thing I have ever done. Because it’s totally political.” She then remembered back to when, as an already seasoned clothes maker, she started applying that skill to the punk milieu. She said: “I used to make all my own clothes.
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