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Vivienne Westwood's bravura performance at the Hay-on-Wye Literary festival is already notorious - and not just in the fashion world. Bringing her cultural manifesto to the staid bookworms of the 'Woodstock of the mind' (as Bill Clinton dubbed the event), the grande-dame of British fashion cleared her tent with a virtuoso display of the very eclecticism which has made her designs iconic.
Sitting regally before her audience in bright orange chignon and thick-rimmed glasses, Westwood assaulted the notion that art is subjective - through puppet show.  “If there is 'no art' there is 'no progress'.” She declared, “We must find [art] out; go in search of her!”  The crowd may have left in sniffy bafflement, but don't all prophets outrage the punters?

Read or Listen to Westwood's Active Resistance to Propaganda manifesto.