Vivienne Westwood
was born Vivienne Isabel Swire in Glossop, Derbyshire on April 8, 1941,
she moved to London when she was just 17. In 1970, with Malcolm McLaren
she opened the shop Let It Rock on Kings Road, Chelsea in London to
showcase their fifties Rock 'n' Roll records and memorabilia as well as
fifties inspired fashion designs.
Turning away from the hippy movement,
young people started to come to the shop fuelling a revival of the
period and it’s popularity increased as Elvis Presley began his 1970s
comeback. A design icon of UK fashion was born.
Today Vivienne Westwood also designs fashi
on led yet very wearable
Mens Jewellery based on her classic puink designs including Safety Pins
and Razor Blades.
The Kings Road shop was daringly name changed to "SEX" and sold
leather clothing adorned with zips and chains, tee shirts emblazoned
with slogans and pornographic images, rubber S&M clothing, ripped
clothes and tee-shirts with pornographic text and images and Vivienne
Westwood began to design clothes for the punk band, the New York Dolls.
Punk style came together with the music of the Sex Pistols who play
their first gig wearing clothes from the shop which has by this time had
been renamed again. The clothes were the culmination of the ideas that
had pervaded Vivienne Westwood's
work. Zips, rips, chains, bondage, porn and slogans all featured to
give a look that would go on to make a revolutionary impact on high
fashion.
The classic proportions of English tailoring redefined Vivienne
Westwood's vision as a designer, where English tailoring remaining to
this day the foundation of her work.
Ten years on from 1977 and the punk
rock revolution, Vivienne Westwood showed her 'Harris Tweed'
collection, as a jibe parody of the most English of ladies.
With the opening of her exclusive Mayfair store and the first US flagship store opening in the SoHo district of New York, Vivienne Westwood
became regarded in the industry as one of the top 10 designers in the
world and in July 1990, she showed her first complete menswear
collection in conjunction with Pitti Uomo in Florence. The collection
included designs for mens jewellery and accessories.
Luxury diamond cufflinks and Skull Pendants from Vivienne Westwood's precious range are also available from Thorn Jewellery as special order items. Please contact us for catalogue and availability enquireys.
Her success in the fashion industry has brought Vivienne Westwood
the greatest of honours, now having an OBE for her services to the
British Fashion Industry and was awarded the Queen's Award for Export.
In January 2007 Vivienne Westwood was awarded a DBE
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