The later section on how her interest in climate change & human rights came about and how that has been intrinsically incorporated into her work is far more interesting. You get a sense of her radicalism in her voicing of the link between the destruction of the planet & capitalism. The snake consuming itself. Simplistic but the underlying truth. Although my head starts hurting a bit when I start dwelling on how much someone can really be a critic of a system they are dependent on. A great read, very well researched, and informative book. I learnt a lot about Westwood and her method of working, and about the history of modern fashion. Westwood sampled short-term poverty in the beginning of artistic ambition supported by family in fact, throughout her career she came up against financial loss, a lot to do with her baffling partnership. While this shaped her experience, I know she’s not silly to ignore widening inequality on her doorstep, she’s not. The quotidian survivalist having very little, and making do with Foodbanks, let alone a superficial likeness to wear island rape clothes. But I’m deliberate in that I’m so pleased the voiceless, the raped poor offer dramatic license allowing those living comfort to mimic those beaten by sexual violence.

Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth I've been a fan of Vivienne's fashion for some time and every time I saw a photo of her I just thought "This really looks like someone I need to know". I was not mistaken. Though this co-authored autobiography is as close as I can get to 'knowing' Vivienne the impact it's left on me is incredible. That being said I still give this book 4 stars. It means even more to me to have this following her death, and it makes you realise what a force she was in this world. She speaks truthfully and openly about her life and the journey she has been on from a girl living in the countryside to being in a marriage that didn’t feel right to her life with Malcolm and the Punk movement to her later working on her own and her eventual personal and professional partnership with Andreas to her activism on environmental and social causes.

VOGUE ON VIVIENNE WESTWOOD by Linda Watson. Collection Rolf Heyne, München / China 1. Auflage 2014, ERSTAUSGABE, 160 SS. gebunden (Hardcover, ca. 8°) mit Schutzumschlag, durchweg farbig illustriert, mit Banderole, schön erhalten. Finding out how much of my own life she influenced. All the fashion I adore most comes from Vivienne's career. She talks about how clothes give you confidence and how punk especially was for making you feel more than what the world made you feel like. Diese Biografie hat meinen Respekt für Vivienne Westwood wachsen lassen, denn eins steht nach diesem Buch fest: Wer hart arbeitet und niemals aufgibt, der kann es schaffen. Because, honestly, who the hell am I to be critiquing the life story of the grande dame of British fashion? It’s not like I can add any real value to the conversation.

Dame Vivienne Westwood, DBE, RDI (born Vivienne Isabel Swire) was a British fashion designer largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream. VIVIENNE WESTWOOD von Gene Krell, Reihe Magier der Mode. Schirmer/Mosel München Paris London, 1. Auflage 1997, ERSTAUSGABE, 802 SS. gebunden (Hardcover gr. 8°), mit vielen Farbfotos, mit Schutzumschlag, gut erhalten. Her sense of her own heroism came at least in part from a fierce conviction that she was ‘good at making’. In the years of wartime and afterwards, being good at making could have considerable impact on how you lived. Although there wasn’t much money at home (her father worked in a munitions factory during the war, her mother in a cloth factory), Vivienne was never aware of wartime restrictions, for example, on the use of elastic. Both her parents came from generations of grocers and shoemakers and were good with their hands: Gordon made holly wreaths to sell at Christmas and Dora was a ‘demon’ knitter and very ‘particular’ about making all her children’s outfits. Vivienne inherited their dexterity. ‘Honestly, at the age of five, I could have made a pair of shoes.’ Once, she showed the other children at school how to make a fairground scene involving swingboats out of cardboard and matchboxes. She and her parents also had a strong sense of mutual pride. She was proud of her father, because he was attractive and sporty and sociable and ‘just the best possible dad’. And she always knew her parents were proud of her – proud when she was ‘little’ and proud of ‘what I became’. Und so lässt sie uns teilhaben an der Nachkriegszeit in der sie heranwuchs. Eine Zeit in der DIY noch nicht chic, sondern notwendig war. Sie nimmt uns mit zu den Geburtsorten des Punk und schildert ihre arbeitsreiche Zeit mit ihrem Partner Malcolm McLaren. Großes Porträtfoto (Repro, 8°) , eigenhändig signiert (dito : Farbige Porträtpostkarte mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Unterschrift in Goldtinte zum gleichen Preis vorhanden; Farbportrait-Großfoto,4° eigenhändig signiert Euro 180,-).Tapa Blanda. Condition: Bien. 3 (illustrator). IMAGENES: En caso que no exista imagen de tapa. no dude en solicitarla. Ejemplar Usado, puede (o no) contener signos de uso como firma, anotaciones o subrayados, consultenos para mayor informacion del estado. Art. Das Kunstmagazin. Nr. 2 / Februar 2006. Rätsel Rembrandt. Seit 400 Jahren modern. Alles zum Jubiläumsjahr / Mode und Kunst: Interview mit Vivienne Westwood. At school, too, Vivienne saw herself as heroic, a ‘kind of champion, even as a little girl’. The supervising teacher would come into the lunch room each day and say: ‘Stand up whoever was talking.’ One day, Vivienne decided to test ‘the rhetoric, as it were’. When the teacher came in, she stood up and said, ‘It was me,’ even though she hadn’t in fact been talking.