Vivienne Westwood Sketches
By 1972 the designer’s interests had turned to biker clothing, zips and leather. The shop was re-branded with a skull and crossbones and renamed Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die. Westwood and McLaren began to design t-shirts with provocative messages leading to their prosecution under the obscenity laws; their reaction was to re-brand the shop once again and produce even more hard core images. By 1974 the shop had been renamed Sex, a shop ‘unlike anything else going on in England at the time’ with the slogan ‘rubberwear for the office’.
On this basis, Vivienne Westwood set the children to work; their sketches of what the freedom warriors would look like and their war paint became the basis of the Chaos Point collection. The fabric in the dress is a direct copy of what the children drew; their version of what a. 430 Kings Road1971 – 1980The hippie movement was still the fashion look of late 1960s London, but this did not inspire Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, they were more interested in rebellion and in particular 1950s clothing, music and memorabilia.Vivienne began by making Teddy Boy clothes for McLaren and in 1971 they opened Let it. Nov 21, 2015 - Vivienne Westwood’s “Vive La Cocotte” dress.
In 1976 the Sex Pistol’s God Save the Queen, managed by McLaren, went to number one and was refused air time by the BBC. The shop reopened as Seditionaires transforming the straps and zips of obscure sexual fetishism into fashion and inspiring a D.I.Y. aesthetic. The media called it ‘Punk Rock’.
The collapse of the Sex Pistols and the absorption of Punk into the mainstream left Westwood disenchanted. In 1980 the shop was refitted and renamed Worlds End, the name still in use today.
Vivienne Westwood’s rise is now legendary. Meeting with Malcom McLaren, Sex Pistols’ manager, then, in the early ‘70s, and the opening of the Let it Rock boutique (now World’s End), which became the key place of the punk scene and that transforms Vivienne in the “queen” of the new flow. During the ‘80s, the designer’s style starts to change, and how is what the exhibition Vivienne Westwood, 1980-89 tells us from March 8 to April 2, 2011, at the fashion museum The Museum at Fit, in New York.
When, in the early ‘80s, Vivienne Westwood presents her first collection her clients are mainly tied to street culture. It’s the separation from McLaren, in ’85, that takes her to new horizons. Vivienne Westwood’s clothing becomes more structured, more feminine and with historic inspiration. Like the mini crinolines that capture the attention of the press and new clients. Between 1985 and 1989 her collections are presented in London, New York and Paris, and in 1990 the designer wins the title of British Designer of the Year.
With photographs, magazines and videos, the true stars of the exhibition are some of the items from the historic Vivienne Westwood collections. Like the Pirate (1981) and Buffalo collections (a/w 1982-83) that were very successful among young people. Or the Harris Tweed collection of 1987, from which the iconic boots Rocking Horse are from. And also the Civilizade collection (s/s 1989) to which belongs the double-colored shirt that represents the union between the historic costumes and the street world of skateboarding. One of the fundamental elements in Vivienne Westwood’s work.
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Vivienne Westwood Sketches Art
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