May 18, 2009 11:33

Vivienne Westwood to give talk at Latitude

Flamboyant designer will appear at Suffolk bash

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood will give a talk at this year's Latitude festival, it has been announced.

The flamboyant fashion designer will appear at the Suffolk festival's Literary Arena, alongside acclaimed pop artist Peter Blake – the man behind The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' cover.

Other new additions to the Literary Arena are Patrick Neate and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli, while former Arab Strap frontman Aidan Moffat has confirmed an appearance in the Poetry Arena.

The full Latitude music line-up so far is:

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1990s
2 Hot 2 Sweat
Alan Pownall
Amazing Baby
Animal Kingdom
Bat For Lashes
Bishi
Black Joe Lewis
Bombay Bicycle Club
Casiokids
Catherine AD
Chairlift
Chew Lips
Dag For Dag
Dear Reader
Django Django
Doves
Editors
Fight Like Apes
First Aid Kit
Sugar Crisis
Golden Silvers
Slow Club
We Have Band
Gossip
Grace Jones
Hjaltalin
Joe Gideon & The Shark
Jonathan Jeremiah
Juliette Kamagere
Kurran And The Wolfnotes
Ladyhawke
Lisa Hannigan
Little Boots
Little Comets
Magazine
Marina And The Diamonds
Mew
The Mummers
Music Go Music
Newton Faulkner
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Not Squares
Passion Pit
Patrick Wolf
Pet Shop Boys
Post War Years
Pretenders
Pulled Apart By Horses
Regina Spector
Skint & Demoralised
Sound Of Guns
Speech Develle
Spiritualized
Squeeze
Teitur
The Agitator
The Airborne Toxic Event
The Late Greats
The Invisible
The XX
White Belt Yellow Tag
White Lies
Wild Beasts
Yes Giantess

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