The 72-year-old designer left her mark in true punk style by wearing a large badge bearing the face of Bradley Manning, the soldier at the centre of the Wikileaks furore

Vivienne Westwood was probably one of the only guests in attendance at this year's Met Ball who actually played in role in punk the first time round. This year's theme, Punk: Chaos to Couture, inspired spikey hairdos and the odd dash of over-applied eyeliner, but in the spirit of all this anarchic, Westwood, 72, ruffled a few feathers by donning a very large badge with a picture of Bradley Manning and the word Truth.

According to New York magazine The Cut, the designer rejected questions for the Vogue livestream and decided to explain the thinking behind her badge. They quotes her as saying: