Vivienne Westwood

By Claire Wilcox

Book Overview

Vivienne Westwood is a global fashion icon whose career has spanned three decades. This book, published to accompany the first retrospective of her work, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, highlights one woman's creative journey from the early days of punk to the establishment of her own fashion house. Westwood has been an influence on the worlds of art, music, and fashion since the early 1970s. One of the first designers to create subversive fashion, clothes that disseminated political messages, she later found inspiration in history and literature, producing clothes that are witty, original, and technically accomplished. The book's 200 photographs, a mix of ad campaigns, fashion shoots, catwalk shots, and archival images, many rarely seen or long forgotten, chart the evolution of Westwood's work from outfits worn by the Sex Pistols to more recent creations for Sarah Jessica Parker, Cameron Diaz, and artist Tracy Emin. The pictures, selected by Westwood herself, together with Claire Wilcox's perceptive text, show why this fascinating designer has a cult following around the world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810966220
• ISBN13: 9780810966222
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.6" x 0.9" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary