What was so significant about Vivienne Westwood's thatcher cover

[JoshBB]

I apologise if this is the wrong place to post something like this, but I am trying to do some research and can't appear to find information on the subject. Please answer in a non partisan and impartial way.

So, in specific I was researching Vivienne Westwood as she interests me and I came across a front cover in which she was dressed as thatcher. The magazine cover was captioned "this woman was once a punk". This is apparently, according to a few newspaper articles, one of the best front covers of a magazine ever (that may be an exaggeration, I don't know).

My question is - what in specific was so significant about this front cover, and what were Vivienne's intentions for organizing/creating this?

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[look at me not talking in my usual full-lowercase, idiotic way. this is weird.]

[JoshBB]

bump bc i still wanna know

[Kizzy]

It says april fool on the cover, it's from 1989.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9PUOBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT85&lpg=PT85&dq=-+Tatler+April+Fool+issue+1989&source=bl&ots=BgrN_MVGZp&sig=AhC1zGuSb4fWuXWYqSghu0lKYXE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EG8NVdufC4KqafTSgpgH&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=-%20Tatler%20April%20Fool%20issue%201989&f=false

'She dubbed the period 1981 to 1985 "New Romantic" and 1988–91 as "The Pagan Years" during which "Vivienne’s heroes changed from punks and ragamuffins to ‘Tatler’ girls wearing clothes that parodied the upper class.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivienne_Westwood


'Thatcher snatched her first fashion magazine cover back in 1989 – kind of. Tatler's cover depicted Thatcher above the headline “This Woman Was Once A Punk”. But the “Thatcher” it depicted was played by Vivienne Westwood, for their “April Fool” edition – a designer whose politic, rhetoric and outlook stands in direct opposition to Thatcherism. I suppose that makes her the Shadow Iron Lady. Incidentally, the day of Baroness Thatcher's death shadowed Dame Westwood's 72nd birthday – and that lady is still inventing, and reinventing. To me, she's much more worthy of this fashionable attention.'

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/alexander-fury-margaret-thatcher-was-no-style-icon-she-just-dressed-well-8573194.html

[Marsh.]

They mis spelt the word rhyming with hunt?