The ARC of this book was provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The ‘My First Little People, Big Dreams’ series provides informative and inspirational biographies about people who left a mark on this earth, no matter what difficulties they have encountered.
These stories are very short, but that’s because they’re books for children, so it’s totally understandable.
I think they are a very smart and wonderful way to introduce little children to such important figures.
This one here tells the story of Vivienne Westwood, one of the most iconic fashion designer who have ever lived. I enjoyed very much reading about her childhood and how she managed to become who she is today. She's a very strong, outspoken and fierce woman, and that can be retrace in her creations.
Vivienne is also a climate change fighter and here is represented how she mixed this fight with her clothes.

I love these books so much! Great illustrations, simple but interesting stories about people who have had an impact on society. I didn't know much about Vivienne Westwood but I enjoyed reading this book and am excited to use it in our homeschool curriculum!

While I liked the art in this book, my e-arc didn’t have any text and the formatting was off. Considering I liked other books of this series, I suspect I would’ve really enjoyed this one, too.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

So I LOVE Vivienne Westwood's designs/clothes, and I couldn't resist trying out this book. My love for Vivienne Westwood began when I read NANA years and years ago. I fell in love with all the awesome things she makes, wishing I could wear them.

This one tells us the life story of Vivienne Westwood, from tiny little kid to adult. I loved that she defended people who got bullied, that is really sweet and special. I didn't even know she was a teacher! That was such a fun thing to find out. It was quite, thanks to the book's jumping around in age, hilarious to see her go from classy teacher to punk rock loving woman with pointy hair and clothes that were ripped up. We see how she starts making her name, and read about her getting critics feathers ruffled due to her clothes. It was all plenty of interesting and I liked how they ended her story.

Like with another book in this series, this one also features her life story in just words with plenty of more information than we got in the picture book part. Also included are photographs of Vivienne.

There was just one thing I didn't quite like and that was how it moved from one age to another, it was quite jarring at times. I had to go back at times to see if I missed a page or two, or three.

The art was great, I am really liking Laura Callaghan's style. It fits so well with Vivienne.

All in all, this was a pretty nice introduction to Vivienne Westwood, and I would recommend it.

This series is always a joy to read, it’s a really nice introduction to well known people for little children. Of course the plot is always a little bit fast but that’s to be expected and it’s totally understandable.
Vivienne Westwood is definitely a big name in the fashion world and it was very nice to know more about her life and how she became the unique and original fashion designer that she is today. It was also interesting to learn about her fight and interest for climate change and what she's doing to help.

I did think this series would struggle in giving me a biography of someone I really don't care for and about, but it's still a strong title. Of course, the text can't begin to discuss some of the things Vivienne Westwood has been known for (it can't even name her shop, for one), but it does convey the times she was most influential, even if of course it was never a particularly welcome influence. As corrective to that, we learn Westwood is now a climate change campaigner, which was news to me. Strong here, too, as usual, was the artwork – it's all in the detail, from cod magazine names to the women with all their armpit hair hanging out. I risk sounding like the Chatterley judge – ("is this ugly, punky ethos something you would wish your school library users to read about?!") but even for all the merits here, I can think of countless better examples of inspiration. Her unconventionality, of course, is partly the point, but all the same.