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Design legend Jeff Banks 'forced out of Vivienne Westwood fashion house in boardroom putsch'
As Fashion queen Vivienne Westwood lay dying, she summoned fellow designer Jeff Banks and made a monumental request: to secure her legacy by becoming a director of the company.
As Fashion queen Vivienne Westwood lay dying, she summoned fellow designer Jeff Banks to her bedside and made a monumental request: to secure her legacy by becoming a director of the company she had spent decades building up. But less than two years after Dame Vivienne's death, Mr Banks has been forced out of the business amid reports of bitter in-fighting and a boardroom coup that has left the empire in chaos, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. 'It has made House of Gucci look like Play School,' one well-placed source said in reference to the 2021 film about the vicious fight to control the Italian fashion brand.
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