Vivienne Westwood’s OBE Dress Goes Viral 30 Years Later After Social Media Praises Her No-underwear Style Statement

Dame Vivienne Westwood died Thursday at age 81. The British fashion designer was best known for her contributions to the punk fashion phenomenon that swept the ‘70s. Westwood is also recognized for her contributions to environmentalism and was part of the sustainability conversation long before it went mainstream in fashion. Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood at Buckingham Palace, where she received her OBE from Queen Elizabeth II on Dec. 15, 1992. Social media reacted with tributes to Westwood’s legacy as a designer and boundary-pushing public figure. Among them, images of Westwood‘s OBE ceremony on Dec. 15, 1992 — where she’s seen twirling in a dress that revealed she wore no underwear — went viral. Elle Fanning, who praised Westwood on Instagram as “daring to disrupt and daring to be yourself 100% of the time,” shared a photo that received more than 150,000 likes and a torrent of comments. Overnight, searches on Google for Vivienne Westwood yielded a surge in interest for her OBE dress photos. Westwood’s outfit consisted of a dark gray skirt suit lined with gold satin and paired with a matching hat, white shirt and black stilettos. The designer has said that she typically eschews wearing underwear with dresses. After she received the

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