Vivienne Westwood Greenwash Plate (XR DONATION)
Vivienne Westwood Greenwash Plate. A plate from Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label “CHOICE” collection, sold with the original box. The “CHOICE” collection is part of Vivienne Westwood’s effort to raise awareness of climate change. However, since we are not sure if any of the profits were donated to any climate charities, the full price will be donated to Extinction Rebellion.
400,00 kr. incl. VAT
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Vivienne Westwood “STOP CLIMATE CHANGE” Plate. A plate from Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label “CHOICE” collection, sold with the original box. The “CHOICE” collection is part of Vivienne Westwood’s effort to raise awareness of climate change. However, since we are not sure if any of the profits were donated to any climate charities, the full price will be donated to Extinction Rebellion.
The UK in the 70s was notoriously shitty. Massive unemployment and working-class poverty were just a few of the problems that Britain could thank Margaret Thatcher for. From the socio-economic problems emerged various counter-cultures to the ruling Conservative class. Not just an important trend in music history, with highly influential bands like the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and The Damned, punk was an attitude against the system, the establishment, the conservatives, and the conformists. A key form of expression for punks was clothing. And since the UK is the birthplace of conservative bourgeois attire, historically foisted on children in the form of school uniforms, it’s the perfect place to rebel against suits, ties, and skirts. The punks reclaimed their personal clothing choices and, as fuel on the fire, the conservative class reacted very harshly to this. As Paula Reed described in her book “Fashion Revolution”, punk was not born on the shop floors, but rather on the streets where children and young delinquents would tear their shirts, wear bondage pants and platform shoes, and sometimes flip off the police or set fire to a garbage can. Vivienne Westwood became part of the punk scene when she met the Sex Pistols’ infamous manager Malcolm McLaren in the late 60s. Together they ran the punk hotspot, a clothing store called “SEX” on King’s Road in London from ’74. In the shop, Westwood and McLaren sold their own designs as well as fetish- and bondage wear from local and international designers. In ’76, “SEX” was renamed for the fourth or fifth time as “Seditionaries” and, with the backing of another King’s Road store called “BOY”, expanded their brand. This is, in our opinion, the most interesting time in Vivienne Westwood’s career which has given her the status of one of the most prominent European designers. Seditionaries’ designs included heavily distressed tops with provocative punk prints – such as the one where Mickey Mouse is seen doing heroin, or having missionary sex with Minnie Mouse and his ear is carved into an anarchist ‘A’. Other designs included the iconic gauze bondage ‘DESTROY’ tops that expressed rather important political statements. Later on in her career, Vivienne Westwood has moved to higher fashion, designing beautiful haute couture collections while always maintaining a focus on the statement and new perspectives on orthodox dogma.