Get a Life
Get a Life

Author: Vivienne Westwood

Publisher: Serpent's Tail

Published: 2016-10-13

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1782831827

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Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment. Reading Vivienne's thoughts, in her own words, is as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britain's punk dame - a woman who always says exactly what she believes. And what a life! One week, you might find Vivienne up the Amazon, highlighting tribal communities' struggles to maintain the rainforest; another might see her visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, or driving up to David Cameron's house in the Cotswolds in a full-on tank. Then again, Vivienne might be hanging out with her friend Pamela Anderson, or in India for Naomi Campbell's birthday party, or watching Black Sabbath in Hyde Park with Sharon Osbourne. The beauty of Vivienne Westwood's diary is that it is so fresh and unpredictable. In book form, generously illustrated with her own selection of images, it is irresistible.

Vogue on Vivienne Westwood
Vogue on Vivienne Westwood

Author: Linda Watson

Publisher: Quadrille Publishing

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781849493109

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A provocateur, radical thinker, and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless passion for tradition. From the mini crini, the liberty corset, and the rocking-horse shoe to the stunning, sumptuous wedding dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City and Dita Von Teese's infamous purple wedding dress, Westwood has unleashed her imagination on the world for almost 40 years. Her Pirate and Edwardian looks were worldwide fashion trends, and her revolutionary designs include the co-creation of the punk style, the introduction of street style into high fashion, the reworking of the crinoline, the restyling of Harris tweed, and the reintroduction of platforms and the hourglass figure. She has been described by Anna Wintour as 'an unbelievable influence' and by Alexander McQueen as 'the Coco Chanel of our day'.

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood

Author: Fred Vermorel

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 1997-10-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1468309854

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Vivienne Westwood was the Queen of Punk Rock and her fashions have scandalized and fascinated the world since the Sixties. Parading models bare-breasted down the catwalks of Paris, posing pantiless outside Buckingham Palace-she has an insatiable appetite for anarchic outrageousness. She has never lost her power to shock, and her continued innovations make her one of the most talked about fashion designers in the world. But little is know about this essentially private woman. What is she like What is the secret of her success.Gleaned from more than thirty years of interviews with Westwood herself, Vivienne Westwood describes for the first time in detail Westwood's childhood and early years; it also exposes the inside story of her stormy and bizarre relationship with musician and fashionista Malcolm McLaren. The author looks at the origins of Westwood's witty and erotic sensibility, placing it in the context of the sixties, and throwing light on the dynamics of punk and on Westwood's later ability to tap into the inner logic of fashion - a Romantic perversity which is at the heart of mass consumption itself. As a dirty history of the Sixties shared by Westwood, McLaren and the author, and as a story of the triumph of a mad, bad, outrageous girl, Vivienne Westwood succeeds brilliantly.

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood

Author: María Isabel Sánchez Vegara

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1786037564

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Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Vivienne Westwood tells the inspiring story of this flame-haired fashion designer and businesswoman.

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood

Author: Vivienne Westwood

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2014-10-09

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1447254139

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Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true legend. Her career successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world. For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life. Told in all its glamour and glory, and with her unique voice, unexpected perspective and passionate honesty, this is her story.

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood

Author: Claire Wilcox

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Published: 2005-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781851774050

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"Vivienne Westwood is a global icon whose career has successfully spanned three decades, from the early days of punk to the coming-of-age of her own fashion-house. Published to accompany a major V & A exhibition - the first ever Vivienne Westwood retrospective - this book is also the first full-length study of her work as a groundbreaking fashion designer."--BOOK JACKET.

Fashion & Perversity
Fashion & Perversity

Author: Fred Vermorel

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 9780747530763

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The story of one of fashion's most shocking and outrageous personalities. It recounts Westwood's humble beginnings and involvement in the punk movement while also giving an insight into the personal relationships and creative impulses of this influential designer.

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood

Author: Juergen Teller

Publisher: Steidl Dap

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 9783865216908

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This book brings together images from the Spring Summer 08 Vivienne Westwood campaign. In his usual style, Juergen Teller photographed the collection by creating a highly theatrical mis-en-scéne which involved the collaboration of not only the models but also the designer herself.

Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood

Author: Moleskine

Publisher: Moleskine Books

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788867326501

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Talented and audacious, with working-class origins, Westwood embodies, in the popular imagination, one of the iconic figures in the mythology of the western: the outlaw who has managed to give the sheriff the slip and earn honor and respect from the community. A rebel by chance rather than by choice, a conservative revolutionary in the tradition dating back to the suffragette movement, Dame Vivienne represents quintessential Britishness strongly rooted in culture.Although she is the "queen of punk" with a particular interest in philosophy and the painting of bygone days, a social activist and aesthete who loves to delve into the past, she constantly and inexplicably finds herself in the vanguard.In an account that starts from the creation of fifteen garments and accessories, this book pinpoints references to past times and art history, together with aesthetic and philosophical elements. After the ready-mades of the 1960s, in which she made use of mass-produced clothes, took them apart, cut them up and then mixed them together - reflecting the growing fusion between art and fashion - Westwood was able to indulge her intellectual curiosity with the help of books and pictures. She did not sketch her models on paper, but created them directly using the moulage technique on a small dressmaker?s dummy or even herself, working around the figure, so that the final result was the modification of the body?s shape, with radical structural alterations and asymmetric cuts."Fashion Unfolds" is a collection of books which reveal the creative process of leading international figures in fashion design, giving an intimate look into the secret, multifaceted and fascinating world of past and contemporary fashion designers, like precious objects that reflect each designer philosophy. As well as hundreds of images each book includes unpublished interviews and essays by the industry?s leading journalists. These books reveal the poetry of processes and precision that have led to the most unexpected creativity. They are materials for study, providing inspiration and awe.