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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Vivienne Westwood

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Vivienne Westwood

What a life! I want to thank both of you and also those who bring fashion forward in their own special way.

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Radical chic and professionalisation

Frontal colour photograph of a narrow black house with two upper floors. The window frames of the upper floors are white and partly decorated. On the ground floor there is a shop with a huge clock whose numbers go up to 13. World's End boutique with 13-hour clock

Born out of necessity, she soon developed her business into a respectable skill. In November 1971, she and her partner, Malcolm McLaren, opened their first boutique at 430 Kings Road in London under the name 'Let it rock', a reference to the Chuck Berry song. McLaren had started selling his fashion at the location two months earlier with a friend from art school, Patrick Casey, in the previous shop called 'Paradise Garage', until the owner, Trevor Myles, let him take over. Most of the clothes, some of which were second-hand, were aimed at 'Teds', as McLaren himself wore teddy boy suits and despised the hippie clothing that was prevalent at the time. Westwood designed the styles and East End tailor Sid Green and a seamstress took care of production. The standard range included teddy jackets, tight trousers and creeper shoes. As the racism and sexism of the Teds became increasingly apparent, they renamed the shop 'Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die' in memory of the untimely death of acting icon James Dean in the spring of 1973 and focused on rocker fashion. At the end of 1974, the name was changed to 'Sex' and the range shifted to erotic lingerie and SM items.

The boutique became a meeting place for the London punk rock scene, including Sid Vicious and other members of the future Sex Pistols, the Chelsea band members and Mark Stewart. The radicalisation of Westwood's worldview was also reflected in the shop's subsequent name: 'Seditionaries - Clothes for Heroes' (from 1976) and 'World's End' (from 1979), under which the shop still exists today.

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alltrekvarnews

2 years ago

Vivienne Westwood, diseñadora de moda británica e icono del estilo punk, muere a los 81 años