To help people. And then you got to cut a figure. She soon got tired of how McLaren managed to monetize on the movement. Her son Joseph Corre fully supports her desire to stop reminiscing of the past. In he made headlines when he decided to burn punk memorabilia and collectibles worth 10 million pounds. A post shared by Vivienne Westwood viviennewestwood.
While McLaren is remembered mostly for his contribution to punk, Westwood moved on to become a celebrated fashion designer.
In she was decorated with an OBE. In the conservative world of fashion acceptance came late. But there is no doubt she finally received the recognition she deserves. Westwood is still an activist, still playing with symbols. With the "finger exercise", as she explained the star phase to the star in an interview, she was concerned with a kind of subversive provocation: "I wanted to find out to what extent you can change the situation by attacking the system.
But she quickly realized that you couldn't change anything with blanket phrases printed on T-shirts. In this way, the pirate collection marks the beginning of a new direction in Westwood's fashion, which still shapes it today. Evocations of the 18th and 19th centuries combined with ideas from literature and art. In the documentary "Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist", implemented by the British director Lorna Tuck, she explains that everything she designs must have character.
At Westwood, fashion history meets the unusual: tartan checks, tweed, latex, corsages and courtly skirts are combined in their designs, far from any fashion dictates and detached from rules or labels. Today only what the propaganda industry puts in front of the people is consumed. It is precisely for this reason that the designer is always politically active and regularly launches campaigns. Be it for human rights, sustainability or environmental protection; often paired with her shows, which she likes to use as a stage for her tough, unvarnished statements.
Here is a cross-section:. This is proven, among other things, by the fact that they have not used real fur since or their influence on other designers. Text: Elisabeth Klokar. Elisabeth is an author and freelance journalist. For more than ten years she has been writing about modern and contemporary art, fashion and architecture for a wide variety of print and online media.
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By introducing color and mixed patterns with huge voluminous skirts and billowy silhouettes, Westwood also spearheaded another revolutionary concept to the British mainstream: gender-fluid dressing.
Her clothing was worn by both men and women and the designer asserted that her collections weren't about sexual or gender identity but for the "enjoyment of life.
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