Westwood requested £45,000 tartan funeral

Dame Vivienne Westwood requested her funeral was decorated with tartan worth £45,000 – in a run-down church in her working-class home town, it was revealed.

The punk icon, who died aged 81, on December 29, was laid to rest in Tintwhistle, Derbyshire, where she grew up.

Dame Vivienne told her closest friend, the British designer Jeff Banks, that she wanted the church where her funeral service was to be held to be swathed in her beloved Macleod tartan Harris Tweed, which she used in several of her collections.