The designer had been ill for some time. Her condition had worsened in recent days
Vivienne Westwood died today in London. She was 81 years old. The designer had been ill for some time but she never wanted to reveal her illness. Her condition had worsened in recent days but those who stood by her tell of a woman combative until the last.
Her latest hours are already one legend. He spoke to the last of the planet and what must be done to save it. Vivienne Westwood she left as she lived, in first line and without limits. She would have turned 82 on April 8. She was born in Derbyshire daughter of textile workers, Gordon and Dora Swire. A family of countryside English and she grows up just like that between picnics and harvest festivals. Who would have thought that little girl red redhead with large blue eyes and porcelain skin would become the Queen of the punk and which would have dressed generations of youth rebels first with leather and studs and then with corsets and basket?
The clothes as a manifesto rebel but also his life who until the end scratched and lived, talking and talking about all injustices which she thought were right delete: from pollution to the death penalty.
In London Vivienne arrives at 17 but leaves early the university why he gets bored: la city captures her and stimulates her to explore places and people. At twenty-one she marries Derek Westwoodhas a son but the city is too tempting. He knows Malcolm McLarenthe musician who will shortly be the impresario of Sex Pistols and she with him will become the most irreverent UK stylist. Together they open one boutiquesat 430 King’s Road. I will become there dispay window from the generation rebel of a London that lives on music, leather and chain. A showcase that will never change names (from Let it Rock, Too fast to live, too fast to die a Sex), and it will be one scandal after another, policemen always lurking. Like that time, in 1974 when for a rather collection hardmade of clothes of leather and t-shirts of latexchains and t-shirts porn they intervened to put the seals.
Then came the Sex Pistols and the irreverence against the queen Elizabeth that in ’92 he will forgive her, even giving her theBritish Order. On the other hand the Queen it was her, at least in the coolest neighborhoods and clubs.
is that she, self-taught and stubbornin the labels just never managed to stay: L’unico reason for which I make fashion to tear apart the word conformismwas one of the sentences historical which she loved to repeat to anyone who approached her defining it. So when the rebellion takes place establishment, explore more. In the name of one discipline culture, the only one she followed, she began to study the history of costume. The nineteenth century fascinates her, and here is the corsets, wigs, horsehair skirts, faux culs. Tradition, yes. Incredible.
And in a short time, the fashionthe big and true one celebrates it: the Victoria and Albert Museum he even dedicates the largest to them show set up for a living stylist. And from London Vivienne moves to Paris. He has always slept little and worked so much, this lady. The Atelier, life between England and France and then one teacher’s desk in Vienna. The year in which the Queen honors her with a medal (at the ceremony the designer makes one of hers and makes fun of the photographers raising the skirt to show that he doesn’t wear the lingerie) in that year he also meets the future husbandAndreas Kronthalerhis student at the Vienna fashion school, 25 years older young. Where is the problem? AND’ love at first sight.
Yup they marry shortly after, during a lunch break in London. He becomes his assistant inseparable to which she leaves the creative direction in 2016, certainly not to go into pension. The worldshe told anyone who came to greet her, she needs to other. Just talk about clothes, she admonished anyone who approached her backstage at her husband’s shows. Too bad as soon as she the looks or the cameras looked away, she quickly adjusted this or that dress. An attraction fatal towards the right thing to do.
December 29, 2022 (change December 29, 2022 | 22:26)
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