Vivienne Westwood

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And people who’ve had a harder life and more dramatic experience than we have. I analyse it in this way: the poor have status, the status of having more experience, and therefore a patina of prestige attached to their clothes.' I’ve never been to Puerto Rico. But somewhere I’d seen Puerto Ricans wearing their bras in the street and people who dressed in a little pair of shorts with a bra, and then just went to the shop with Coca-Cola cans instead of rollers in their hair. So it became a look not only of a beachcomber or somebody who’d been raped or whatever…' Vivienne Westwood hat im Leben nichts geschenkt bekommen. Für sie war ihr Leben meistens ein Kampf - Egal ob gegen Konventionen, Malcom oder die Geschichtsvollzieher. Es ist wirklich ein wahres Wunder, dass sie nie aufgegeben hat. Doch wer beharrlich geht, kommt auch ans Ziel. Art. Das Kunstmagazin. Nr. 2 / Februar 2006. Rätsel Rembrandt. Seit 400 Jahren modern. Alles zum Jubiläumsjahr / Mode und Kunst: Interview mit Vivienne Westwood. VOGUE ON VIVIENNE WESTWOOD by Linda Watson. Collection Rolf Heyne, München / China 1. Auflage 2014, ERSTAUSGABE, 160 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, ca. 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, durchweg farbig illustriert, mit Banderole, schön erhalten.

This is such an amazing book about the ongoing legend of Vivienne Westwood, who played an indispensable role in the formation of punk. The book opens with Kelly at a fashion event with Westwood, and as readers, it felt like we were also there, following Westwood around as she chats about her life. Du coup, plutôt que de me donner envie de lire autre chose pour en apprendre plus, ça m'a désintéressée du personnage. Thanks to Ness, who died some ten years ago, she no longer had to feel she was alone at the barricades, because she no longer expected to find anyone of worth behind her. Fashion was for ‘an elect’ who understood the connections and recognised the ‘standards of excellence’ of the past. The irony is that, having adopted this position, she went on to achieve a popular success far greater than anything she had enjoyed in the past. By the mid-1990s, she was ‘the most sought-after designer in the world’, according to Kelly. Her Paris collections at that time included ‘Anglomania’, ‘Café Society’ and ‘Storm in a Teacup’, all based on historic, Ness-inspired themes. ‘We made incredible statements in Paris, with Gary’s input, because he did know what he was talking about historically.’ She was also starting to make serious money for the first time. The Marxisting people succeeded in marketing Vivienne Westwood as a brand to Swatch watches and the Littlewoods catalogue. Carlo D’Amario, her Italian business manager, started selling licences for her clothes into Japan, where fashion customers couldn’t get enough of her tweeds and tartans. She stunned 1960s London (who were still well and truly in the grips of Beatlemania) by chopping off her hair and bleaching it white-blonde. She was the pivotal player in creating the musical mayhem that is the Sex Pistols. Toward the end where the main focus was on her activism, I love how Westwood said that everything costs less than it’s supposed to because the Earth is carrying that subsidy for us. (And yet it is also true that the current world economy does not allow us all to have the luxury of only purchasing sustainable items.)That being said I still give this book 4 stars. It means even more to me to have this following her death, and it makes you realise what a force she was in this world. She speaks truthfully and openly about her life and the journey she has been on from a girl living in the countryside to being in a marriage that didn’t feel right to her life with Malcolm and the Punk movement to her later working on her own and her eventual personal and professional partnership with Andreas to her activism on environmental and social causes. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD (Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE (* 8. April 1941-2022) englische Modeschöpferin, Queen of Punk VIVIENNE WESTWOOD (Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE (* 8. April 1941-2022) englische Modeschöpferin, "Queen of Punk" Vivienne was famously uninterested in trends, seeking to create what appealed to her own artistic sensibilities, causing immeasurable stress for those working with her. Her use of impractical fabrics and cuts made her designs “extremely complicated to manufacture, as she [rejected] any recognizable template or pattern”. In the business world, Vivienne’s companies dealt with constant financial mismanagement, largely stemming from employees taking advantage of her trust (or oversight, as the case may be) and swindling money. Vivienne fought for recognition among her contemporaries, such as John Galliano (with whom she unsuccessfully competed to become Design Director of Dior in the mid-90s), Alexander McQueen and Jean-Paul Gaultier, many of whom restructured Vivienne’s original concepts, such as the corset and bustle, to be An Unfashionable Life is fascinating for how it charts a woman who influenced latter 20th century fashion so deeply. Vivienne’s use of sloganned tee-shirts – a design concept which deserves partial accreditation to Malcolm McLaren – ranging from the provocative “naked cowboys shirt” to text based styles, such as, “The best accessory is a book” – reflect Vivienne and her followers’ reactions to mainstream fashion. When 80s power dressing meant androgynous pantsuits, Vivienne reintroduced the corset and celebrated the shape of a woman.

Vivienne Westwood covers everything from Westwood’s childhood, her motherhood (sons Ben Westwood & Joseph Corré), her intellectually stimulating and abusive ex-partner Malcolm McLaren (Joe’s father) with whom she shaped punk, her post-Malcolm years of launching her own brand, and her passion in political activism. I personally find it all very fascinating and informative about how Westwood shaped the world around her as well as how the world shaped her. Condition: guter Zustand. 1. Auflage. fester Einband ("Hardcover") 223 S., mit zahlreichen Farb- und Schwarzweißfotos, Fadenheftung Schutzumschlag minimal berieben, ein schönes Exemplar Sprache: ger/deu*.

I've been a fan of Vivienne's fashion for some time and every time I saw a photo of her I just thought "This really looks like someone I need to know". I was not mistaken. Though this co-authored autobiography is as close as I can get to 'knowing' Vivienne the impact it's left on me is incredible. Finding out how much of my own life she influenced. All the fashion I adore most comes from Vivienne's career. She talks about how clothes give you confidence and how punk especially was for making you feel more than what the world made you feel like.

It baffles me that Kelly kept on deadnaming and misgendering Chelsea Manning, who came out publicly in 2013. Note that this book was published in 2014, and there was one sentence that mentioned her name, so Kelly wasn’t exactly clueless. This issue made me unable to give the book a rating. Her sense of her own heroism came at least in part from a fierce conviction that she was ‘good at making’. In the years of wartime and afterwards, being good at making could have considerable impact on how you lived. Although there wasn’t much money at home (her father worked in a munitions factory during the war, her mother in a cloth factory), Vivienne was never aware of wartime restrictions, for example, on the use of elastic. Both her parents came from generations of grocers and shoemakers and were good with their hands: Gordon made holly wreaths to sell at Christmas and Dora was a ‘demon’ knitter and very ‘particular’ about making all her children’s outfits. Vivienne inherited their dexterity. ‘Honestly, at the age of five, I could have made a pair of shoes.’ Once, she showed the other children at school how to make a fairground scene involving swingboats out of cardboard and matchboxes. She and her parents also had a strong sense of mutual pride. She was proud of her father, because he was attractive and sporty and sociable and ‘just the best possible dad’. And she always knew her parents were proud of her – proud when she was ‘little’ and proud of ‘what I became’. I wonder if anyone has lived such a vibrant and influential life, simply by trusting their instincts and doing whatever they f**king well wanted. A great read, very well researched, and informative book. I learnt a lot about Westwood and her method of working, and about the history of modern fashion. At school, too, Vivienne saw herself as heroic, a ‘kind of champion, even as a little girl’. The supervising teacher would come into the lunch room each day and say: ‘Stand up whoever was talking.’ One day, Vivienne decided to test ‘the rhetoric, as it were’. When the teacher came in, she stood up and said, ‘It was me,’ even though she hadn’t in fact been talking.I really enjoyed the book because I’m a massive fan of Vivienne Westwood and it’s great to have this as part of her legacy. Westwood’s a private person, clearly political #climaterevolution and the greatest in this decade at, let’s be honest, clothing well-to-do and better I think at focusing her last years and energies toward activism. You can’t get a more iconic Brit say Establishment corgi although if this woman shat catwalk steamer, it’d be heralded the next unaffordable thing. Wrap it in traditional tartan print, crown it with tweed, and you’ll witness nails digging into middle-class skin, atomically harming one another if needs must, must-have shat. For Ness, the pre-Revolutionary years were the fertile ones; Westwood’s inspiration now came from such aristocratic sources as Sèvres porcelain. Her ‘Watteau dress’, which despite the name was taken from a Boucher portrait of Mme de Pompadour, was made from silks that would have been used at the time. Her ‘spiritual home’ was now the Wallace Collection in Manchester Square. Ness egged her on to find her true voice, not as a revolutionary but a counter-revolutionary. ‘The basic idea,’ he once said, ‘is that Rousseau – proto-socialist and godfather of the idea of the “noble savage”– is responsible for the damage that has been done to traditional ideas.’ He schooled Westwood in a rejection of Romanticism and argued for a return to ‘high art’ created by a small, educated elite. Kelly explains that ‘Ness, like many of his generation, saw in the political emancipation of the Age of Revolutions the seeds of decay in Western culture.’ Ness and Westwood together rejected any notion of democratic taste. They adored the idea of the 18th-century salon and met several times a week to discuss ideas, with Ness telling Westwood what to read and Westwood giving him money. They liked to refer to the marketing people as the ‘Marxisting people’, because they paid too much attention to what people wanted. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth

Sometimes I forget how much I love memoirs and biographies. After Vivienne Westwood, I’m definitely interested in reading about more fashion designers. Remove the pomp and aristocratic knobs attracted to high culture and fashion, and you’re left with a woman who created luxury largesse out of basics who not interested in materialism, her idea of luxury is a night in reading. A bibliophile comforted reading many and varied books, sipping a flask of hot water kept by the bed, and shared with her Italian BF, Andreas – a better suited collaborator IMO.Tapa Blanda. Condition: Bien. 3 (illustrator). IMAGENES: En caso que no exista imagen de tapa. no dude en solicitarla. Ejemplar Usado, puede (o no) contener signos de uso como firma, anotaciones o subrayados, consultenos para mayor informacion del estado.