Vivienne Westwood's legendary life

British fashion designers, fashion industry's "mother of punk." Comes from a family of workers from the North of England. She was the punk movement's prominent figures, attributed her success to her second husband Maier test Mumai Craven - the famous British rock band "of the gunmen," the broker set up and inspired and pointing. She has the typical appearance of rock, or digging a hole torn T-shirt, zipper, pornography slogans, lanyards and other metals, and has been affected so far. She and Michaela text with the King's Road in London opened her first clothing store name to "enjoy the rock", specifically the sale of those street children who are wearing clothes. They later renamed the store several times, and specifically for the production of rock musicians and punk clothing.Creation and rebellion has been the center of her life lies. Since her promotion, punk culture of high fashion to form a revolutionary impact. Because of her rude way to completely negate the traditional French high fashion to give a heavy blow, but also for British fashion in the international fashion industry to win a place, therefore, the Queen awarded her the gold medal. She has always been a revolutionary fashion designer. Years is seen as an alternative fashion industry who have a wild imagination and daring creativity.Her style has been imported to those mainstream design philosophy: asymmetric T-shirt, cut broken, worn edges fabric, underwear Waichuan, under the tight fitted jacket, Krini miniskirts, tight long skirts, belted trousers, clogs style sloping high heels ... .... She influenced generations of people, but also influenced generations of designers. She also worked for the film "Leaving Las Vegas" design clothes, but also for the opera "three pence", "village" designed clothing.
Westwood
Looking at contemporary British clothing industry is a prime example Vivienne Westwood, her rise in the late 1960s. She opened the avant-garde clothing shops, wielding the scepter against the system, causing the world's attention. England always gives the impression the two extremes: one end is the image of Britain's Royal, stiff; the other side of the body language is very lively punk, with colorful clothes and rebellious hair. Westwood are unorthodox in the extreme, she pretty well master spirit of the times, the rebellious elements into the work being. Her design style has been a representative of the British position, like the Beatles music, mini skirt and street fashion in general. Doctrine filled with sensual, dissolute informal appearance, pattern bloody T-shirt, fake leather pants, from the traditional constraints, the absolute attitude of resistance in the end, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD interpretation of the personal brand is important when a scene, like the avant-garde to ivienne Westwood the ultimate representative of, for example, be converted to S & M flavor of clothing, full of spirit of the slogan printed on T-shirts, pirate clothes torn LOOK, VivienneWestwood shaking drums for 70 of the 80's punk and new romantic make a clear comment .
That the use of "decadent," "abnormal," "deviant" and other words to describe the Westwood clothing, and never too much, because she kind of different lengths, strange, haphazard clothes really surprised to Western fashion , one can not compliment her masterpiece, but can not be her unique design ideas and awe. regardless of Westwood's design or praise, or demoted, but people have to admit that her rare, eccentric eccentric design the contribution of today's fashion industry, she's designed to meet the fashionable young people welcome the eighties, especially the youth of London, "punk", "Teddy boys", so Westwood clothing into a world influence. Holford Stewart commented: "Over the past decade, she is the most influential British designers of her design ideas to fundamentally change our concept of clothing." Although she's not designed to become the master of fashion in Paris, also failed to formation of the trend, but her influence is mainly in the concept, design concept not only her great impact on the traditional fashion, but also represents a radical of the younger generation. a sense that she, like the sixties Mary Quinnespecially as, given the dramatic impact the fashion world.
Westwood south from the United Kingdom, 1941, she was born in a village called Dingte Wisconsin Patel little place. His father's machine shop in the ice cream factory work, even though not born rich, but her childhood was happy. Westwood intelligent extraordinary childhood, learning excellence, award high school scholarships, her parents live frugally, to donate to buy the South Harrow town post office errands, so his family south. Later, she recalled their own ideas, said that, I went to Harrow School of Art to learn, they also thought the working class entirely, she studied at the Harrow School of Art for a semester, a student of gold and silver jewelry design when she dreamed of being a teacher to enter teacher training college, she first Kodak plant to make money, then go to school when the teacher, when she wanted to "do the teachers and I can also paint."
Soon, she married and gave birth to a son, Benjamin. She likes to paint, but do not like doing housework, and finally she and her husband divorced, she divorced her husband thinking that lead to laziness. Westwood has never been the kind of step by step who, as a teacher, she is not like the kind of president, even though the students liked her, but she was good at getting along with colleagues. So she had to design jewelry, and get the portobello the street to sell by her brother she met on her success with important influence in Malm McClellan. They wander as two stocks, swaying and crazy current, once met there will be a strong lightning, interests the same so that they finally come together, and McClellan became her mentor and partner, Westwood then follow him in an increasingly ideological belief in anarchism.
In 1970, Westwood to the mother by a hundred pounds, and McClellan's British partner in the London shop Wang 430, followed by a named "Eden" of the carport. At first, They sold fifty Rolling Stone's rock music and music recording, but Westwood's interested in fashion design, and soon her first clothing line come out, it is the urban youth rebellion by the West after the creation inspired by the spirit, people call it is " Teddy buddies "style, won the society's attention and she's completely out of the traditional design of the costumes feature, with almost all kinds of brutal ways unimaginable combination of materials and methods, while it is precisely such a grotesque, Liao in the form of waste, won the acclaim of Western decadence youth.
Westwood's design concept is the most absurd in the clothing field, the most bizarre, is the most original. The late seventies, her design and more use of leather, rubber, making bizarre fashion, swelling like a drum gyro-shaped trousers; have to first wrap the cloth on his head a huge felt hat; black leather T-shirts; pirate-style crepe dress with beautiful big mark, even in expensive clothing torn holes or deliberately do tear break of the "parachute clothing." in the early 1980s is a bold approach; Waichuan underwear, bra worn in the coat and even outside, in the women's wear in plus culottes skirt, pants, she threatened to take everything in made public the secret family her all the madness of the idea, so that foreign visitors often terrifying, she can even make a short sleeve, a long, long to four feet, torn into pieces, uncoordinated patchwork of color, Ji-out of the rough interested in sewing thread, in short, these have become the means of her design, or design style.
Westwood clothing is her pursuit of such a concept, rude against the prevailing social and political, to resist the traditional dress code and her clothes often make the wearer look like after the Holocaust was a group of victims, but like a soul to be happy, to meet the martyrs, so Westwood is considered to be London's most creative designers and courageous, she's the main idea is to "let the traditional hell!" * her wild idea is also reflected in the constantly changing the name on the .1971, the name is "let it swing it!" in 1972 changed to "Come on, how fast can not live"; then changed to "the young dead," in 1974 to "sexy"started" punk "and a variety of raw materials in rubber clothing .1977 years and changed to" traitor, "she pulled the banner of rebellion, she said:" Our interest, and is considered rebellious, we would like this annoy Brits ... .... "
In 1980, the famous "doomsday" store was born. "Armageddon" have become the world's famous boutiques, and France, because it is exactly the opposite fashion of the "boutiques." Because of her store all is preposterous, seven eight twisted crooked stairs, walking the clock backward, and strange costumes. "doomsday" first of a series called "Pirates" series, with the liberal side of crepe pants sagging to the knees, plus the red, orange, blue rough printing T-shirt, shows a rough, loose spirit. "doomsday" quickly became a modern young London on the British king respected the Holy Land.
In 1982, her second store, "morass of nostalgia" opened, where distribution of "punk" to keep young people like a variety of vertical hair grease, colorful, strange cosmetics. Westwood launched strange installation inspired street the "punk", especially the British king and Hammersmith Palace, "punk," "tribal people."
With the "punk" to the world, Westwood's reputation has become increasingly high. 1983 spring, the first time Westwood fashion show held in Paris, she launched a series called "witch" is a group exposed to the lower abdomen modern clothing, there does not cease to fight according to the law of color cloth, coarse stitching, colored blocks and dirty rags patch, which is an unprecedented "fashion." Although it is impossible to obtain her challenge to society as a whole resonance But after all, so she won the world's eyebrows.
Westwood a major admirer of the young genre of Western popular in recent years their discontent against the government, against tradition, both in dress and manners to vent out of extreme dissatisfaction, emotional and social decadence of mockery. popular in the eighties, "punk" is the past, "hippie", "Teddy buddies" the same, but the clothing on the young people of different genres, "punk" and "trademark" is Indian-style hairstyle Mohicanswill on both sides shaved naked, standing on top of his head a lock of short hair. Westwood to design a number of hair, hair care, hair styling vertical. There peculiar make-up with paint, blue, green, and gold are applied on the lip, cheek to; clothing is even worse, Westwood clothing precisely reflect and represent the needs of the youth culture layer, they sent the odd fitted to express their different political tendencies in this regard, modernprimitive clothing with the motivation is no different. In this regard, Westwood said, "clothing is a way to express each person in 1981-82, her so-called new romantic style, is a hobo style clothing, "These clothes are for the original exploration," she said, "I want to find their own way romantic." She throws a frilly pirate shirt, satin around the sweater in the cloth on the Waichuan Faroe girls wear, all convey her unconventional design concepts.
In 1985, while popular with the macho world of women's broad shoulders, the London market, the emergence of a hanger on the "new" style of dress, which launched in the nineteenth century Westwood bracket-style dress. It appears that this unusual fashion is very difficult to win people's popularity, especially while people are pursuing natural fit today, but this hoop-like skirts London Fashion Week in October after a window filled with up to three months. Westwood The skirt is an advocate, then of course her dress or bubble skirt support frame inside wearing jeans and she put this dress is called "another classic style" or "fit the mood of a new era." She said: "I never like big shoulders of clothing and that was the thing to bring Miao Spengler." said: "Women are powerful, I do not understand why people ended up without sex to shape." In fact, , the design of her own often capricious. Westwood is with absurd, exaggerated, inconsistent approach to win the favor of modern youth, she has become a "punk" youth idol.
Since 1972 she exhibited her work in London, she established her unconventional style of clothing in recent years, she had five performances in Paris, her work appeared in Italy, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, France and Japan, many of her followers in Japan, using the same design of those absurd way too scary or super tight or loose clothing, she said, not without pride: "Some people flatter me, I the kind of tear, large, disfigured Japanese inspired design, they are the early seventies, carrying a camera to the British folk songs, and Japan and the United Kingdom, is an island culture and its development can not rely on other cultures. "
"Doomsday" to create the style, it should be said, mainly based on their anarchist views. Westwood and Scott McClellan supports a variety of youth rebellion schools, and these schools have in turn become a source of inspiration for their design, they Declaration printed on T-shirts, "Only the most beautiful anarchy." They shared in the cause of, the hard work of Westwood is a designer, she designed and produced, while McClellan is more "intellectual" , "literally" in the design and creation, who looks gentle, elegant, face like good people, there is a lovely curly red hair, but he did a staunch anarchist, he was a British rock band " of the gunmen, "the form, he no doubt thought of all the fanatical support of the infection and Westwood in the demonstrations against the Vietnam War, McClellan was arrested, Westwood heard the news of voluntary imprisonment, they claim We want to expose corruption and hypocrisy of this society. Westwood said: "We had our own culture shock and all superstition, and we tried to find our true freedom."
How to evaluate Westwood's designs? Evaluation of her writing, even she could not say, or impatient, she has the artist's creative passion, but the lack of a clear mind of politicians, but as she believes the , Culture reflecting the society, and fashion is bound to reveal the social and cultural part of her creative modern society is represented by the so-called "subculture." It is her creative ideas based on political anarchism and anti-art tradition, the eighties, her "punk" as the palette to create the modern dress of some young love, she also is known as the "punk" of the mother. Westwood Some strange thoughts always pop out the first moment, this way of thinking manifests itself distorted suture, asymmetrical cut, unfinished hem and uncompromising color, her goal is clear: that the traditional fashion idol challenge, although she often very respectful tone that Chanel, Vionnet, Armani, but her creations is against them, she once made a follow traditional Arab women's designer Xu L · Li called the most awkward of designers, "she dressed up as women, children, like hiding in a small bedroom, like the poor or a fool."
History has always been the person to write a history of discontent. Change the status quo, against the traditional dress, which clothes the history of the twentieth century the idea is not uncommon, but like her for a complete negation of traditional high fashion, with the anti-traditional crude approach to the impact of clothing aesthetics, is undoubtedly unique in the eighties she was, she could not spread the impact of fashion .1982, the British magazine "observer," said Westwood was "the British king's queen." The article said that the world can not deny her influence, from the "end" to the Paris stage, she was a pioneer as a soldier, a mother of modern culture, their creative thinking inspired many contemporary designers, she broke the shackles of their , the impact of the so-called "choking fashion salon."
Society is such a strange combination, Westwood and the "punk" contempt for the traditional fashion, the United States to abandon the traditional, while filling this anti-trendy anti-fashion style has become a new fashion, new fashion. If Westwood's designs are often due to too extreme, is the haste makes waste, then the other designers due to play down her way instead of creating a radical new way of fashion design.