here's her wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Westwood
some things I think may be type related
-took some time before she thought of herself as a real designer
-says that she can easily see in her head what will happen to fabric in three dimensional space for example, if you make an incision here and wrap the fabric around a square and pull it through it will drape just so (something i don't think i can do, for example)
-reflects on the meanings of work in her field, for example she talks about threads that connect her work over the decades.