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Vivienne

Westwood

Fashion Design Report

By: Danyelle Rowe Pd 1B


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Vivienne Westwood (birth name: Vivienne Isabel Swire) was born inTinwhistle, England on April 8, 1941.

She is an English fashion designer largely responsible for modernpunk and New Wave music new wave fashions. She is known in theBritish Fashion Industry as eMother of Punkf.Vivienne went to a teacher training college and then taught at aprimary school in North London.

She received her last name Westwood from her first marriage to DerekWestwood in 1962. Their marriage lasted three years before she metMalcolm McLaren who became her partner in fashion as well as live,later known for being the manager for punk band The Sex Pistols.

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ContinuedgVivienne continued to teach until 1971, when Malcolm decided toopen a shop, cSexd, and this is where Vivienne began to sell heroutrageous designs. Another shop was open in the same year togetherwith McLaren, she started up a shop called eLet it Rockf on Londondstrendy Kings Road. She spent all night stitching rock-inspired clothes,visiting punk clubs and grunge bars. During this period, Westwood,McLaren, and Jamie Reid were influenced by the Situationists. Thepunk style came to life when the Sex Pistols wore clothes fromWestwood and McLarends shop at their first gig.The cpunk styled included BDSM fashion, bondage gear, safety pins,razor blades, bicycle or lavatory chains on clothing and spiked dogcollars that were used as jewelry as well as the extravagant make-up

and hair. Together, Vivienne and McLaren revolutionized fashion andthe impact is still has today.


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ContinuedgIn 1980 Vivienne introduced her Pirate collection, including frillyshirts and romantic swashbuckling styles. Her design style had evolved sothat her main interests included not only the youth and street culturebut also tradition and technique. Vivienne worked historical factors intoher collection by using historical 17th-18th century original cuttingprinciples and modernizing them. In 1983 Vivienne & McLaren's alliancecame to an end. Westwood started her own designs starting with her eTheWitches Collectionf inspired by a book on Voodoo she read. It washighly successful showing of oddly shaped, cut, and proportionedgarments (the neckline often found under the arm) After several seasons'

absence, Westwood came back strong with her fall 1985 collectioncentered on the bubble-shaped hooped skirt with thigh-high stockings.Westwood's Mini-Crinis caused a shift in silhouette that was swiftlypicked up, first by Jean Paul Gaultier, then by almost every otherdesigner in Europe and New York.Her designs include intentionally twisted seams, intentionally bad cutclothes, designs intended to shock, deliberate contradictions of color.

She ignores conventional fashion directions and goes her own way. She isqueen of the original: bustier, men's kilts, cone-shaped bras as day wear;classical paintings on underwear; the mini crinoline, fake fur trains,woolly royal crowns and so on.


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My aim is to make the poor look rich and

the rich look poor-Vivienne Westwood.

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