This article originally appeared in the December 2025 issue of Vogue Australia.

At Vivienne Westwood’ s memorial service in 2023, on a gray February day on the eve of London Fashion Week, Helena Bonham Carter took to the pulpit in bolts of red tartan and a neck full of pearls. It was all Westwood, of course. For more than four decades, Bonham Carter has seldom worn any other designer. “She has given me my armor to face the world for so many years,” said the actor.

Milliner Stephen Jones, once a shy baby punk—“a real hick from the provinces”—too scared to cross the threshold of Westwood’s London boutique Sex, on the King’s Road in Chelsea, remembers Bonham Carter’s words well. “She got a round of applause. In a funeral!” Jones says. “Vivienne knew how to cut for a woman, and also h

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