Vivienne Westwood : an unfashionable life

This biography follows the working-class, provincial schoolteacher from Derbyshire who, untrained in either design or dressmaking, progressed from dressing up the Punk Rock movement in bondage and slashed T-shirts (aided by her boyfriend Malcolm McLaren) to negotiating with the most prestigious culture house in the world, Christian Dior, to become its designer-in-chief.

Recently awarded an MBE, she's a superstar in Japan, while the French and the Italians were the first to acclaim her.

In America, she's regarded as a mad fashion megastar.