Vivienne Westwood's spring/summer 2008 collection at Paris Fashion Week

The flame-haired designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, a lifelong Labour supporter, vowed to turn blue yesterday.

"I've never voted Conservative in my life," said the "godmother of punk" before her spring/summer 2008 collection at the Paris prêt-à-porter season. "But I would do anything to get this bad lot out."

Vivienne Westwood, said she was "incensed" by the Government's track record on human rights, personal freedom and heritage.
Models in her show frequently appeared wrapped in huge banners proclaiming the anti-propaganda slogan, which they unfurled to reveal Westwood's signature, ultra-hourglass dresses and jewelled "trapeze artist" costumes.
Her collection, she said, was inspired by what the offspring of a marriage between Marilyn Monroe and an English aristocrat would have looked like, laced with references to Gloria Swanson.

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