Vivienne Westwood Is Dead - Long Live The Queen
Vivienne Westwood Was A Once-In-A-Generation Creative, Ground-Breaking, and Outspoken Icon.
In 1977 - for me - Punk Rock had arrived and I wanted more.
I then discovered the Sex Pistols from the TV show So It Goes hosted by Tony Wilson. Once involved with the Sex Pistols punk movement the imagery around them was power loaded and I was pulled in.
Provocative, anarchic, destructive, non-conformist, anti-establishment and demanding attention. I loved it.
In music papers like Sounds, NME and fanzines I started seeing the Sex Pistols photographed outside and inside a shop strangely called and truthfully shocking at the time - SEX. Sex then became Seditionaries. Then that in turn eventually fully revealed the owner and creator by the name … Vivienne Westwood.
I once watched a cheap and now has been TV reporter named Sue Lawley and the new dead Russell Harty shamelessly incite their mindless TV audience to mock and laugh at Vivienne Westwood as she showed her runway collection.
They were non-creators, simple heads on a stick to draw in the simple to watch TV. Vivienne was an all-powerful creator that knew what she had to do… create.
And she went from mockery to designing tartan in its finest for the British royal family.
A true creative at its most British showed others how to go from destroy to the most admired.
What a powerful way to see a life well lived. A life well used. A life lived to the maximum despite her initial struggles from design, to teaching, to Malcolm McLaren and then, of course, her other legacy her brilliant son at Agent Provocateur.
Vivienne Westwood Is A Once-In-A-Generation Icon.
My dear Vivienne, your legacy is surely set in stone.
Thank you for sharing your energy and gifts.
I am an admirer from afar.
8/4/41 - 29-12-22
