Ready-to-wear: Vivienne Westwood

Ready-to-wear: Vivienne Westwood
 British designer, one of the founders of punk fashion Vivienne Isabel Suayr was born in 1941 in the town of Tintvisl (Derbyshire). Her family was quite poor, and Vivienne early enough to start their independent life. Learned about the teacher, she married Derek Westwood, worked as a teacher, she had two children, but in time came to her senses, realizing that such a quiet and respectable life to her to anything.

She opened her store punk clothing that is called Let it Rock, and then renamed the Sex. Vivienne Westwood C divorced and met Malcolm McLaren, manager of the band Sex Pistols. He became her companion and inspiration for 13 years. Together they designed the costumes for the famous band and just clothes for fans and their girlfriends. That Westwood introduced the fashion on the red cell, leather black leather jackets, chains, spikes and other punk attributes.

After a while Vivienne fashion and took on a more serious level. In 1981, she created her first collection of pret-a-porter "Pirates", which participated in the London Fashion Week. Behind her was followed by "The Savages," "The Witches", "Longing for the dirt," etc. Name Vivienne Westwood firmly established in the fashion critics lists. It does not get tired to amaze the audience with their provocative outfits that are now recognized worldwide as a true art.

Slightly tired of punk fashion designer turned to history. She returned to the podium corsets and bustles, reminding emancipated women of fashion about what can be sensual female figure. It does not copy the story, she takes it as a basis and reworks in his own style and how she wants. Vivienne turns today to different epochs, as if alluding to the fact that no past no future.

Over time, her models are becoming more feminine and elegant. Without special education, Westwood manages to create extremely complex cut and come up with a lot of detail, distinguishing the "chips" of their collections. She then turns the seams inside out, then sew the pockets of shirts on the shoulders, the men's sweatshirt is decorated with a bow tie.

At Westwood style Vivi many fans and admirers. Of course, it's not just punks. Westwood clothing and worn and quite respectable people with a little bit of a sense of humor. Designer dresses for women just a gift: she only knows how to naturally connect sexuality with integrity.

Vivienne Westwood among the six best designers in the world, twice was named "Designer of the Year" in the UK, is a professor at the Graduate School of Applied Arts in Vienna. It produces not only clothes pret-a-porter, but clothes "haute couture", which fly like hotcakes. Today Vivien 70, she is full of energy and vitality. She is married to his pupil, who are younger than her 30 years, tirelessly working and participating in political and public life in Britain.

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