Lot Essay
Vivienne Westwood was photographed by her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, wearing this dress in their garden in London, illustrated.
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Winter‘With a back-catalogue boasting titles drawn from 19th-century socio-political treatises, quoted from 17th-century French moralists and plundered from Rococo masterpieces, ‘Winter’ seems too straightforward a name for a Vivienne Westwood collection. But in actual fact it was a Shakespeare quote, titling a song in Love’s Labour’s Lost, the text of which was printed as a backdrop to this show.The collection itself referenced Westwood’s love of sexualized historicism, only this time without histrionics. There was, perhaps, a Shakespearean swagger to hooded cloaks in fringed wool and emerald duchesse satin, while sweetheart necklines with heavy trompe l’oeil silver jewellery slid from the 16th to the 17th century, and the swathed décolletage of Nell Gwyn.’Alexander Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'WINTER' COLLECTION, AUTUMN-WINTER 2000 / 01
AN EMERALD GREEN DUCHESSE SATIN TWO PIECE ENSEMBLE
Details
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD,
'WINTER' COLLECTION,
AUTUMN-WINTER 2000 / 01
AN EMERALD GREEN DUCHESSE SATIN TWO PIECE ENSEMBLE
The off-the-shoulder corset bodice with outer draped satin layer, the accordian skirt with zigzagged inserts, Gold Label
'WINTER' COLLECTION,
AUTUMN-WINTER 2000 / 01
AN EMERALD GREEN DUCHESSE SATIN TWO PIECE ENSEMBLE
The off-the-shoulder corset bodice with outer draped satin layer, the accordian skirt with zigzagged inserts, Gold Label
Literature
A. Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections, London, 2021, p. 439, identical model illustrated.
Further details
The Estate of Vivienne Westwood will donate 100% of the total hammer proceeds received for the sale of her personal wardrobe, less auction expenses, to be split equally between The Vivienne Foundation, Médecins Sans Frontières (a charity registered in England and Wales with charity number 1026588) and Amnesty International (registered in England and Wales with charity number 1051681).