26 June 2015
There’s no rebel like an old rebel. Dame Vivienne Westwood was at the Latitude Festival in Suffolk this weekend, and while she is known as the quintessential punk she says she is not keen on the movement. “I really don’t feel like I have achieved anything,” she said. “The punk era gave England the sense that we are such a free society, we have got all our rebels and ‘ain’t we great’. I think some people who were part of that climbed a pedestal and became token rebels. I lost interest in punk when I realised this was going on.”
Surely there were benefits? “One thing I’m proud about punk is that it helped to fix in the minds of young people that they should never believe anything the Government tells you.”
