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Street TheatreThis collection went back to the streets from which Westwood and McLaren had come but now the clothes are ‘Theatre’, as a form of everyday spectacle and performance. Performative fashion led right back to Westwood’s roots in punk – as did the focus on the street. She had been exploring sportswear-inspired pieces for a number of seasons. There were conscious echoes of the punk heritage in the clothes, too, through strapped and restrained outfits, deliberately destroyed cut-out and shredded layers of textile and knit, and a recoloured, age-patinated Union Jack. Andreas Kronthaler later told British Vogue how the image was made: I have these friends who are the descendants of Nelson, and this is his original flag that they lent to me and I photographed and printed. It would become a 21st-century classic print for Westwood. The fashion critic Suzy Menkes pithily summed up this collection: Vivienne Westwood, with her habitual fashion perversity, decided to exchange her usual sexed-up clothes for streetwear (see A. Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk, London, 2021, p. 456).
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'STREET THEATRE' COLLECTION, SPRING-SUMMER 2003
A BLUE AND WHITE TICKING AND BROWN CHECK COTTON SHIRT DRESS
Details
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'STREET THEATRE' COLLECTION, SPRING-SUMMER 2003
A BLUE AND WHITE TICKING AND BROWN CHECK COTTON SHIRT DRESS
Cut asymmetrically with a hip pocket, Gold Label
A BLUE AND WHITE TICKING AND BROWN CHECK COTTON SHIRT DRESS
Cut asymmetrically with a hip pocket, Gold Label
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).
