Dame Vivienne Westwood, who at 76 still helms her multinational fashion empire and regularly attends protests and rallies, has finally indulged us in her secret to staying young. 
 
 After watching the show of husband Andreas Kronthaler at Paris Fashion Week last night, reporters asked the designer, who has come to be known for her gender-bending garments, how she maintains her youthful glow. As reported by The Guardian, the dame had a simple answer: “Don't wash too much.” Kronthaler added to the statement, saying, “She only takes a bath every week. That’s why she looks so radiant.” 
 
 Westwood has described herself as an “eco-warrior” and appeared bathing in a World Water Day campaign video to highlight the meat industry’s depletion of our water sources. In an interview with PETA, the designer revealed that she’s not one to shower much: “I just wash my bits and rush out in the morning. I more often than not get in the bath after Andreas.” 
 
 During a time when it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the abundance of beauty products and prescribed rituals, Westwood’s relaxed attitude seems like a feminist, countercultural statement. And that is exactly what we’ve come to expect of the queen of punk. ||||| Fashion designer, 76, says not washing too much is the secret to seeming young, while her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, says he washes even less often 
 
 Vivienne Westwood on her secret to staying young: bathe once a week 
 
 Achieving eternal youth may not be as difficult as one imagines, according to the fashion designer and environmentalist Vivienne Westwood. 
 
 
 
 This weekend the 76-year-old queen of punk revealed her secret to staying young: have a bath only once a week. 
 
 Westwood’s confession came after reporters asked her about her youthful appearance while she watched the show of her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, at Paris fashion week. 
 
 Westwood smiled and said: “Don’t wash too much.” 
 
 Kronthaler interjected: “She only takes a bath every week. That’s why she looks so radiant ... I only wash once a month.” 
 
 
 
 Westwood, who has campaigned against the meat industry depleting water supplies, previously said: “I just wash my bits and rush out in the morning and more often than not get in the bath after Andreas.” 
 
 Kronthaler, an Austrian-born designer who is said to have inspired the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s 2009 character Bruno, put on a show that featured a dozen or more human sculptures wrapped in duvets. 
 
 “There is nothing better than giving people choice,” he told AFP of a collection he said was filled with “lust, desire, sex and sadness”. 
 
 “We travelled quite a bit this summer and I tried to put it all into it.” 
 
 Kronthaler said he spent some of his time on holiday in a Tyrolean cowshed and named the dresses in his collection after the cows. 
 
 One outfit is called Vivienne after a calf his wife helped deliver. Two others are called Naomi and Donatella, after the fashion icons Naomi Campbell and Donatella Versace. 
 
 “Now I am ready for something different ... I cannot wait to get my hands on the next mess,” Kronthaler added.
– Vivienne Westwood is known for her punk and new-wave style, and now also for her hygiene habits. The Guardian reports the 76-year-old British fashion designer was in Paris over the weekend for Fashion Week, and after her show put together with husband Andreas Kronthaler, Westwood was asked by reporters how she was able to keep looking so youthful. She offered what Vogue calls some "unorthodox advice." "Don't wash too much," she said, with Kronthaler jumping in with some TMI: "She only takes a bath every week. That's why she looks so radiant." Westwood has previously delved into her hygienic process, revealing that "normally at home I'm not used to the habit of a shower" and that "I just wash my bits and rush out in the morning and more often than not get in the bath after Andreas," per the Independent. The site adds she became a vegetarian partly because she was disgusted by the amount of water the meat industry wastes. At any rate, Westwood has apparently found her soulmate in Kronthaler, 51, who boasted on his own behalf to reporters that "I only wash once a month."