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Byline: Mark Holgate
Alice Temperley looks as though she would rather be anywhere but here. The 29-year-old London designer is wandering around the Victoria & Albert Museum's retrospective of Vivienne Westwood, but, try as she might, she cannot get her head around it. She knows that many women her age would love to plunder the display cabinets to get their hands on Westwood's Pirate-era squiggle-print tops and other radical booty, but it's not for her. Westwood's raw aggression, her ripped and rent seams, her revolutionary, body-distorting, how-do-you-put-this-on approach to fashion. . . . Well, thinks Temperley, who in her right mind would ever want to wear ...