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Early life
Westwood was born Vivienne Isabel Swire in the village of Tintwistle, Derbyshire [N 1] 8 April 1941 [2], daughter af Gordon Swire and Dora Swire (born Bale), where the sharing of sea married two years earlier, two uger after udbruddet af World War II [3] At the time of Vivienne's birth, had happened father attack that oplagringsvirksomheden in an aircraft factory; .. He previously sharing of sea arbejdet that green is [3]
17 years, moved Vivienne and hands family of Harrow, London. She stud track of Harrow School of Art, where the maker mode and silversmithing, but she forlod after one term creep: "I vidste not, how arbejderklasse-girl like me could possibly lower one, which live in the world of art." [4] After the garden taget a job in a factory, and study at a teacher-Seminarium, she became an elementary school teacher. [2] In løbet af this period, she also sits skabt own jewelry, which she would sælge to a stall on Portobello Road. [2]
In 1961 mødtes Vivienne Westwood Derek Swire, a Hoover factory apprentice, in Harrow. [5] They were married on 21 July 1962 and Vivienne creator of his own wedding dress to ceremonies. [5] In 1963 she gave birth to a Sunday, Benjamin Westwood. [5]
Malcolm McLaren
Johnny Rotten from the Sex Pistols wearing a Seditionaries t-shirt
When she mødte Malcolm McLaren, it meant afslutningen af Westwood ægteskab with Derek. Westwood and McLaren moved to a council lejlighed in Clapham.Westwood continued to teach indtil 1971, where Malcolm decided that åbne one stores at 430 Kings Road Hedda "Let It Rock" (later Kenda alternately as "Sex," "Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die" and "Seditionaries"). Westwood lichen TOJ, which McLaren conceived, where TRÆKKER inspiration from rockers, fetichister and prostitute. [6] In this period was McLaren manager of punk band Sex Pistols, and after following the two tiltrak opmærksomhed, when the band gik Westwood and McLaren designs. While there live in their lejlighed in Clapham, sharing of sea Westwood and McLaren a child, a candidate Sun, where hed Joseph. [Edit]
Punk era
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Westwood was deeply interested in punk modefænomen in 1970'erne and said "I was messianic about the punk look, if you could sætte a kæp the system in one way or duck måde". [5] Westwood increasingly Ejer the stores, [afklaring needed], which is now nationwide as the world's end, from which she sælger their Vivienne Westwood Brands. Vivienne Westwood only producer of a series af TOJ, which was cold Worlds stænger. Vivienne Westwood afterwards stopped producing any line in 1982 that koncentrere himself on his hands Vivienne Westwood Lines.
The "punk style" mode indgår BDSM, bondage gear, sikkerhedsnåle, razor blade, the Cykel or toilet Kaede on TOJ and spidse dog collars for jewelry, as well as outrageous make-up and hair. Væsentlige design elements include adoption af tradition formal elements af Scottish udformning, such skotskternet substances.Among the more unusual part af handed styles Bruges af historic 17 and 18 century klud Skaer principper and genfortolke them in, for example, radical Sharp lines of men's pants. Brug af these tradition formal elements gør the overall effect af handy design more chokerende.
Vivienne Westwood (banqueting)
Westwood has five udelukkende-ejede stores, three in London, Leeds, and one in Milan. Franchise stores are Placera in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, three in Manchester and most recently, in FH Mall, Nottingham (20 marts 2008), and in Blake Street, York (September 11, 2008). [Edit] She also has showrooms in Milan, Paris and Los Angeles. [Edit]
Art collections
The pair of heels designed af Westwood, as Naomi Campbell, famous stumble, while modeling the West Woods mode show in 1993 [7]
Event first catwalk show was præsenteret in 1981, and the bidder in samarbejde with Westwood and McLaren. The theme this year was Pirates. [8] After following Westwood themed titles in the early years medtaget Savage (1982), Buffalo Girls (efterår / winter 1982-83) and Clint Eastwood, (efterår-Winter 1984-1985) ("Nogle walk you will have Brug for transport Your idea for a plot Landscape and after udfylde it with great udseende people .").[ 8]
She døbt in the period 1988 to 1992, "Pagan Years", where "Vivienne poured shifted from punks and raga muffin to 'Tatler' piger wearing TOJ, where parody account the upper class." [9] from 1993 to 1999, she has called "Anglo Mania" and from 2000 to today - "Udforskning" [10] [11].
Hands efterår / Winter 2005/06 Propaganda Collection tractor inspiration from the event archive, genfortolke designs Bruges Wolford exclusive contend research technology. Westwood has arbejdet in tæt samarbejde with Wolford since 2003.[Edit] In 2006, she samarbejdede with Nine West, if the shoes are not designed directly af Westwood, but Nine West mærkenavn shares his ethics with Westwood.Westwood's Gold Label and MAN hats are skabt af Prudence moderate trading. In December 2003 lance explained she and Wedgwood ceramics business heathenism a række testel with handy design. [Edit]
The first major retrospective af may arbejde was shown in 2004-5 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.Udstillingen, skabt af about 145 complete outfits inddelt in themes from begyndelsen af 1970'erne until today, was drawn from hands own personal archive and the V & A's extensive collection. The designs vary from early punk TOJ to glamourøse "historical" evening gowns. [Edit]
In July 2011 Event collectives ions were præsenteret on the catwalk af The Brandery mode show in Barcelona. [12]
Artistic indflydelse
Westwood has affected lancer no af careers of other designers in the British mode manufacturing. She beskæftigede tjenesteydelser af Patrick Cox to design shoes to be, Clint Eastwood kollektion in 1984. The result was a prototype nine-inch-heel as those carried af supermodel Naomi Campbell as she hem under a moderate Westwood show in Paris in 1994. [Edit]
Sex and the City
Demonstration effects may af-long career, was the West Woods designs featured in the 2008 film adaptation af the award-winning television series Sex and the City.In the film version af TV series, Carrie Bradshaw handled carefully and they engaged langsigtede love Mr. Big. That is a writer at Vogue, her editor may invite to model wedding dresses for an upcoming designed article called "The Last Single Girl". One af the dresses featured in the photo shoot is a design lichen af Westwood, and it is according to the following sent to Carrie as a gift with a handwritten note from Westwood herself. Although she has already picked a Sæt TOJ to the wedding, Carrie decides immediately that carry Westwood gown instead. In trod af the oneness invited to participate in Skabelsen af movie was Westwood uimponeret with costuming af the famous stylist Patricia Field. She gik ud af film's London premiere after 10 minutes, that publicly criticize the TOJ featured as being frumpy and kedeligt. The wedding dress is after the following was wide anerkendt as a af film's most iconic Functions and has led Westwood to turn himself to producenterne that be involved in the low one by following. [13]
Political Engagement
Westwood TOJ with political budskaber udstillet a udstilling in Sheffield
Westwood is almindeligt Kenda as a political activist.
In April 1989 Westwood shown on the front af Tatler dressed as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Dragten, as Westwood bar was was ordered to Thatcher, but endnu was was shipped. [14] Westwood udseende on Tatler reportedly furious Thatcher. [14] Dækningen, which bore the title "this kvinde was once a punk", it was mindeværdige dækning for the magazine and was optaget in The Guardian list of the bedste nogensinde British magazine dækker. [15] To this comes that dække date, April 1989, the magazine carries the words "April imminent". [16]
Dame Vivienne indication on television in 2007, she transferred sharing of sea its long tradition of support to Labour Party to the Conservative People's Party, of Questions about civil rights and Human Rights. [17]
Easter Sunday 2008, she kæmpede Personal of the biggest Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament demonstration in ten years at the atomare weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, Berkshire. [18]
In September 2005, Westwood closed with the British bourgeois of Google group Liberty and lanceret begrænset exclusively designed T-shirts and babytøj bearing slogans I am not a terrorist, do not arrest me. Westwood said that she supported kampagnen and defend habe corpus. "When I was a school girl, my history teacher, Mr. Scott, begyndte the enterprise classes in civilian affairs. The first thing, he explained us, was the grundlæggende retsstatsprincipper indeholdt in habe corpus. He spoke with stolthed of civilization and democracy. HAD of arbitrary detention af Lettre de cachet af the French monarchy forårsaget storming of the Bastille. We can only enterprise democracy for Givet, if we insist on vores Friheden, "said she. [19] The sale af £ 50 T-shirts rejst funding organization.
Active Modstand Manifesto
In a 2007 interview, she spoke imod, what she conceived as "substances forbrugerisme", [20], and she deltog the premiere of The Age of Stupid, a film for purposes that motivate people to act against climate change. [21]
She later skabte a manifesto for active modstand to Propaganda, [22] [afklaring needed], which beskæftiger himself with udøvelse af art in relation to the human Knibe and klimaændringer. [23] I sit manifesto, she "trænger the electrode af human Knibe and provider of the underlying solution, we have the choice between the oneness more cultured and therefore more human -.. or Muddling along as usual we will forblive the destructive and self-destruktion af dead animals, victims of vores own dygtighed "[24]
Mod the claim that anti-forbrugerisme and moderate mods hinanden, she said in 2007 that "I do not feel themselves adapted to defend mit TOJ. But if you have fået afford them, and after kobe anything from me. Just don 't kobe too much ". [23]
Vivienne Westwood in London
In January 2011, became Westwood featured in a Canadian-made television documentary cold Vivienne Westwood in London, where she tags viewer Gennem may preferred share af London, including the Courtauld Institute of Art, Wallace Collection, Whitechapel (accompanied af Sarah Stockbridge), Hampton Court , London Symphony Orchestra, Brixton Market and Electric Avenue, and the National Gallery. Hands purposes, she said, was that the share events Love to highbrow culture, and that impress its importance on the present generation: "I love this city and its culture I will gerne opfordre people that love art and believe that culture can save the world .. Culture is about people's view of the world and together with art, is the anchor which holds us together as a people and giving life a greater meaning. "[25]
Anerkendelse
In 1992, Westwood was awarded an OBE, as she indsamlet from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. [26] The ceremonies were Westwood knick-less, who was later captured af a photographer in the yard af Buckingham Palace. Westwood said later: "I want to show the mit outfit af Twirling skirt. The hem not to me, when photographers were practically on their knæ, the results would be more glamourøst end my sharing of sea expected", [27] and tilføjede "I have heard, that picture morede queen ". [27] Westwood avancerede from OBE to DBE in 2006 New Year Honours List for tjenesteydelser to moderate, [26] and has three walk deserved award for British Designer of the Year.
Personal life
Dame Vivienne Westwood is øjeblikket married may previously moderate students, østrigsk-born Andreas Kronthaler. For 30 years, Westwood boed Council lejlighed in Clapham, indtil in 2000, Kronthaler persuaded Westwood to move ind in a Queen Anne style house built in 1703, which once belonged to the mother of Captain Cook.[28] Westwood not watch TV or læse newspapers and magazines, but she is an avid gardener.
