(CNN) -- Vivienne Westwood is as bald as a baby, the faintest hint of downy white hair sprouting across her naked scalp.

Painted pink eyebrows sweep dramatically outwards. Wearing a sparkling, woven brown dress resembling an expensive hessian sack, she totters onto the stage at London's Southbank arts centre.

Straining forward in her chair, the 72-year-old "grandmother of punk fashion" appears both vulnerable and fierce. Fragile and yet fearless.

"The world was so mismanaged and we hated the older generation because they weren't doing anything about it," she says about forging Britain's punk aesthetic with then-boyfriend and Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren in the 1970s.

"I don't hate the older people now -- I'm one of them. But I've been trying to do something to change things all my life."

'God Save the Queen'

Decades after the couple started their radical new clothes shop in an area of London called "World's End" -- displaying ripped t-shirts, rubber curtains, and even a live rat in a cage -- Westwood has become one of Britain's most prestigious fashion designers.

This is the woman who, after receiving an award from Queen Elizabeth II in 1992, famously twirled around for photographers -- without wearing any underwear under her skirt.

The provocative lady is still there, though a little more frail-looking these days, speaking at London's annual Women of the World Festival.

"Buy less, choose well, make it last," she tells a crowd of hundreds -- mostly women -- patiently listening to a lecture that meanders into climate change, banks, and social responsibility.

1. Who has been labelled "the grandmother of punk fashion"?
2. How old is she?
3. Who gave her an award in 1992?
4. What did she do afterwards to shock the press?
5. Which famous person did she date?
6. When did they have a relationship?
7. Why was he well-known?
8. What kind of store did they open?
9. offering what kind of products?
10. Where was it located?
11. In what city?
12. Why was she angry at the older generation?
13. Does she feel the same way today?
14. What advice did she tell attendees at her lecture?
15. Where was the lecture held?
16. At what event?
17. What was she wearing?
18. What other topics were covered during her speech?
1. Vivienne Westwood
2. 72
3. Queen Elizabeth II
4. famously twirled without wearing any underwear under her skirt
5. Malcolm McLaren
6. the 1970s
7. Sex Pistols manager
8. a radical new clothes shop
9. ripped t-shirts
10. "World's End"
11. London
12. The world was mismanaged and they weren't doing anything about it
13. no
14. "Buy less, choose well, make it last,"
15. London
16. Women of the World Festival
17. a sparkling, woven brown dress resembling an expensive hessian sack
18. climate change, banks, and social responsibility.