VIVIENNE WESTWOOD

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood Fashion Designer

Considered The Designers Designer Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood was born in Tintwistle, Derby, C England, and UK. She became well renowned in the 1970s when, with Malcolm McLaren the rock melodies entrepreneur, she opened a shop in London that became the aim of the punk rock movement. She profited international recognition in the early 1980s with her Pirate and New Romantics look. Vivienne Westwood has performed a crucial function in the emergence of Punk Rock in the 1970s and has gone on to become one of the most initial and influential designers of our time.

Her concepts blend a brave unconformity with a sense of tradition. She is renowned for her mild parody of Establishment methods, her use of very British fabrics for example Harris Tweed and tartan, her re-use of historic garments for example the corset and crinoline. Yet, her set about has habitually been functional, propelled by a curiousness about how things work, a method she recounts as 'learning through action'.

1941 Vivienne Isabel Swire born on April 8th in Gossip, Derbyshire.

1957 Moves with her family to London, elderly 17, and came to Harrow Art School for one term.

1962 Marries Derek Westwood. Aged 21, becomes a primary-school educator in Willesden, North London.

1963 Her first child, Benjamin Arthur Westwood, is born.

1965 Marriage to Westwood ends. She encounters 18 year vintage Malcolm Edwards (aka McLaren).

1967 With McLaren, a second child is born, Joseph Ferdinand Corre

1971 McLaren and Westwood's first shop undoes at 430 King's Road, London, called 'Let It Rock'.

1972 The shop is redesigned and renamed by McLaren 'Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die'.

1974 Shop title is altered to 'SEX'.

1975 Westwood and McLaren are penalized for 'exposing to public outlook an indecent exhibition'.

1976 430 King's Road is renamed 'Seditionaries - Clothes for Heroes'.

1979 'World's End' undoes at 430 King's Road.

1981 March: McLaren and Westwood's first catwalk show, the Pirate collection, shown at Olympia pursued by Savage.

1982 Buffalo and Punkature shown in Paris.

Westwood and McLaren open a second London shop called 'Nostalgia of Mud'.

1984 'Nostalgia of Mud' closes. Westwood proceeds to Italy.

Invitation to show the Hypnos collection in Tokyo at Hanae Mori's 'Best of Five' international fashion accolades, with Calvin Klein, Claude Montana and Gianfranco Ferre.

Deal with Giorgio Armani announced.

1987 Westwood concepts the Statue of Liberty corset as part of Harris Tweed. It is the first corset to be presented into outerwear.

1989 November: Westwood's title seems in a register of the world's peak six designers in John Fairchild's publication Chic Savages (1989), along with Armani, Lagerfield, Saint Laurent, Lacroix and Ungaro.

1989-1991 Appointed Professor of Fashion at Vienna Academy of Applied Arts.

1990 First entire menswear collection, Cut and Slash

Shown in conjuntion with Pitti Uomo in Florence.

History

Born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Glossop, Derbyshire, on April 8, 1941, Vivienne Westwood is one of the most influential and recognisable British designers of the past 20 years. She started conceiving clothes in 1971 with the unfastening of her first shop, Let It Rock, at 430 King's ...