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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

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Vivienne Westwood
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 8
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Derbyshire
Vivienne Isabel Swire
Dame Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood
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