Nearly four years after Dame Vivienne Westwood's death, a bitter battle over her legacy continues to rage between her family and the fashion house bearing her name.
And could the dispute threaten the release of the last collection the queen of punk ever helped design, I wonder.
She had been working on a new line with her photographer son Ben Westwood before she died in December 2022 at the age of 81 – but he now fears it may never see the light of day.
'I was working on this collection with her – her last collection,' Ben, 63, tells me at the private view of Nick Egan's Live Forever exhibition at Karma Sanctum Soho.
'But at the moment, that's all up in the air. There's one very big hurdle to jump over before I can do anything with that at all. So maybe it never gets done, I don't know. It's all in limbo.'
The feud going through the courts revolves around rights to Dame Vivienne's famous orb logo and early designs.
It pitches the Vivienne Westwood company against the charitable foundation of which Ben is a director alongside the designer's other son, Joseph Corre, his daughter Cara, and Vivienne's widower, Andreas Kronthaler.
Cara also previously accused the company's chief executive, Carlo D'Amario, of bullying. Ben, pictured above with his mother in 2019, turned his attention to fashion at the age of 45 after a career as an erotic photographer.
He has never designed collections for the Vivienne Westwood label but in 2009, he launched his own venture called The Ben Westwood Lines, with his first collection inspired by tribal culture and pirates.
Vivienne Westwood filed a copyright and intellectual property claim against The Vivienne Foundation last year but the charity maintains the designer transferred copyrights to it before her death. Seems like the aggressive spirit of punk lives on...
Ben Westwood and Dame Vivienne Westwood attend the British Land Celebration of Design at House of Commons
There are fears that the line Ben was working on with his mother may never see the light of day
Ladies of London do not come cheap
When Bravo's revived reality TV show Ladies Of London was shelved after just one series, many blamed poor ratings. But cast member Lottie Kane, below, suggests another factor – the gargantuan salaries of some of her co-stars.
'A producer told me it cost a lot of money to do the show,' Lottie, 35, tells me at a party at Adelphi Art House in London. 'God knows what they had to pay the Marchioness of Bath [left] to do it. And even [former Made In Chelsea star] Mark–Francis Vandelli would have been given a very good salary. Unless viewing figures were sky high, it couldn't be sustained.'
Lottie Kane (pictured) suggests the sky high salaries of some cast members were not sustainable
Helen's new pad is spellbinding
Many people decorate for Halloween, but Helen George wants her new home to have a witchy vibe year-round. After a painful romantic split from business leader Dan Innes earlier this year, the Call The Midwife star, 42, is having a new start in a new home with her two daughters – and plans to decorate it in the style of cult film Practical Magic. She said of the property: 'I just felt the energy, and it felt right for me and my girls.'
Call The Midwife star Helen George plans to decorate her home with a witchy vibe this year
Bentley with all-original bodywork
Olivia Bentley is putting her cards on the table when it comes to cosmetic surgery – admitting to a little facial fine-tuning... while insisting her breasts are entirely her own.
'I've never actually had anything done to my body,' says the Made In Chelsea star, right. 'I've never had a boob job. I don't tend to wear a bra, so I think when I do wear a bra people think I have had [a boob job].'
Bentley, 31, reveals that her face, however, has had a little tweakment, with her teeth done earlier this year, alongside skin boosters, a touch of filler in her top lip and botox in her jaw.
The reason? So she doesn't end up with 'a face like a slapped a***'.
Olivia Bentley has admitted to cosmetic surgery around her face but has denied altering her breasts
Actor James McAvoy is unlikely to be rushing to Buckingham Palace to collect an honour, as it would compromise his working-class principles. The Glasgow-born X-Men star, 47, says: 'You have to live with yourself. You've got to look yourself in the mirror and be cool with yourself. I'm cool with anybody else who makes a different decision. No judgment. But I'd judge myself.' His ex-wife, actress Anne-Marie Duff, received an OBE last year – so no hard feelings, then!
Prince William's third cousin Daisy Knatchbull has revealed that her great-grandmother, Edwina Mountbatten, had a glittering – and possibly uncomfortable – secret: A penchant for bejewelled underwear. The fashion designer says the countess had an underwear set 'made from Cartier jewels', adding that she was an 'extraordinary woman who had multiple affairs with multiple wonderful men and women through time'.