Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood

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Marion Cotillard wore a Westwood red satin strapless dress at the London premiere of her film Public Enemies in 2009. [50] In 2013, she wore a Westwood Couture pink and ivory striped dress at the Chopard lunch in Cannes. [51] Vivienne Westwood: a taste for the past · V&A". Victoria and Albert Museum . Retrieved 17 July 2023. Asked what the designer's legacy is, the Neon Demon star said: "She's a freedom fighter, she's an activist, she's someone that saw the good in humanity and people." Why the Swagger of Vivienne Westwood's 1981 Pirate Collection Resonates 40 Years On". Vogue. Condé Nast. 17 May 2021 . Retrieved 5 January 2023.

Vivienne Westwood rallies at CND's Easter Monday demonstration in Berkshire". British Vogue. 25 March 2008. Archived from the original on 14 January 2013 . Retrieved 30 October 2010.Westwood recovered tartan as a nod to the repression of the Scottish people by the British crown, she endorsed Doctor Martens and she holed, painted and filled them with chains, and made the t-shirts the best claim to capture his revolutionary ideas. He repudiated the church, monarchy and capitalism, forging a transgressor idealism that fascinated young Britons of the time and that continues today. My diaries are about the things I care about. Not just fashion but art and writing, human rights, climate change, freedom, Westwood said.

Often looking to history, her influential designs have included corsets, Harris Tweed suits and taffeta ball gowns. In 2018, the Vivienne Westwood collaboration with Burberry launches, in joint support of UK-based non-profit Cool Earth, who raise money to help protect the endangered rainforests, combat global warming, protect ecosystems and provide employment for local people. Nymphs, Spring-Summer 2002 – Fragonard, Boucher and Watteau. – Mythological pastoral idylls. – Long feathered eyelashes. – Traditional striped rugby jerseys. – Angular construction. – Intentional unevenness. – “It’s incredibly lively-looking and nervous-looking” (Vivienne). – Giant corsages. – Models emerged from the foliage.

Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood DBE RDI ( née Swire; 8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022) was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. [6] In 2022, Sky Arts ranked her the 4th most influential artist in Britain of the last 50 years. [7] Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for the boutique that she and Malcolm McLaren ran on King's Road, which became known as Sex. Their ability to synthesize clothing and music shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, which included McLaren's band, the Sex Pistols. She viewed punk as a way of "seeing if one could put a spoke in the system". [8] Tributes have poured in for the designer. “Vivienne is gone and the world is already a less interesting place. Love you Viv,” tweeted Chrissie Hynde, the frontwoman of the Pretenders and a former worker at Westwood and McLaren’s store. Sisley, Dominique (2 June 2017). "Vivienne Westwood comes out in support of Jeremy Corbyn". Dazed . Retrieved 1 May 2018. Piers Beeching (6 August 2009). "Me & my garden: Vivienne Westwood". The Daily Telegraph. London, England. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 30 March 2010.