The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

In 1963 Vivienne Westwood gave birth to a son Benjamin Westwood. In 12 November 2004 – 30 January 2005 Vivienne Westwood was featured in a retrospective show "Vivienne Westwood - 34 years in fashion" at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Notes.

Westwood went on to open four shops in London eventually expanding throughout the United Kingdom and the world selling an increasingly varied range of merchandise some of it linked to her many political causes such as CND climate change and the civil rights group Liberty. She has been twice married with two children.