Inspired by an illuminated manuscript from the 1300s, the original "Queen of Punk," Dame Vivienne Westwood, swaddled this year's Paris Autumn/Winter 2013 runway looks in sackcloth cloaks and oversized coats that wouldn't be out of place in The Canturbury Tales. The models were even brushed with sallow plague-y bruises…

So Lindsay Lohan asks to borrow a designer dress for the amFAR gala from stylist Phillip Bloch, whose number she got from Charlie Sheen. Is any part of what I just said a valid reason to hand over a $1,750 dress of intricate beadwork and gossamer fairy tits and silkworms that only eat free-range food and drink fair…

New York Fashion Week is over, which means London Fashion Week is in full swing. Yesterday things got a tiny bit theatrical at the Vivienne Westwood Red Label show. While the styling — especially the makeup — was over the top, Dame Westwood delivered wearable pieces: Cozy coats, slinky dresses, menswear-inspired…

Didn't we just see a demented Vivienne Westwood show, in London? Why yes, we did. But this is her Paris collection, a fancier, even more fucked up Spring 2013 collection: Mad queens with powdered faces and lopsided crowns, jewel-encrusted dresses with raw edges, burlap turbans, ballgowns worn with short shorts. You…

Now that New York Fashion Week has wrapped up, London Fashion Week has kicked off. And yesterday, punk rock icon Vivienne Westwood presented her Spring 2013 show, which channeled Mad Men: The Lost Weekend. Many of the silhouettes were completely classic, but there was always something slightly off: Perfectly-fitting…

Vivienne Westwood, who launched her red Label Collection last night during London Fashion Week, is really disappointed with fashion right now:

In the week of her 70th birthday, Vivienne Westwood tells the Wall Street Journal about her favorite book (A La Recherche du Temps Perdu), her favorite experience (Noh theater), and what she likes to cook (Beef Wellington). She rarely watches her own fashion shows. And the secret to a good marriage, in case you were…

What could bring together Christina Hendricks, Dita Von Teese, Kristin Davis and, um, Marilyn Manson? Why, Vivienne Westwood, of course! Specifically, the opening of her Los Angeles store. And naturally, the clothes were noteworthy.

Vivienne Westwood showed her fall collection at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, a venue more usually home barristers and solicitors than teenaged models made over to look like crazy cat ladies who'd had one too many go-rounds with Marge Simpson's makeup gun. What fun!

Charlotte Free, the newly famous pink-haired …

London, Feb 20: A model with the world's most expensive skin condition displays an outfit by Vivienne Westwood's Red Label.