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16 Cards in this Set
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Viv on her inspiration for Harris Tweed Collection
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“My whole idea for this collection was stolen from a little girl I saw on the Tube”...
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Viv on Harris Tweed Collection
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‘It’s also a move away from the underground. I have an aversion to the underground…There’s...
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Viv's new philosophy on posh clothes
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I’m obsessed with the quality of life, and you have a much better life if you wear impressive...
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Viv on what Harris Tweed Collection does
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‘I have taken the vocabulary of Royalty- the traditional British symbols, and used it...
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Punkature 1983
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‘You could wear it around your body’ ‘It’s completely street’
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Michael Costiff (biggest collector) on Pirate Collection
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‘It was the most extraordinary thing you’d ever seen” “Magical” “Luxurious,...
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Valerie Mendes (V&A) on Viv
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‘While her ideas can be extreme, her clothes are wearable’
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SEX
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One of the all time greatest shops in history’ Adam Ant ‘Unlike anything...
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Viv on setting up Let It Rock
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‘We were interested in rebellion – we felt that the Hippie movement had waned’
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Viv on shock factor
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‘When I was with Malcolm, he wanted to shock – and he believed in it …We...
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Viv on HoA
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‘I learnt all my politics and understanding of the world through history of art’...
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Viv on Malcom
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‘a one-off..fascinating and mad' ‘He introduced me to things that excited...
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Viv on becoming a designer
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‘Up until the Sex Pistols and Punk Rock I’d never thought of myself as a designer,...
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Malcolm encouraged her to create new Romantic movt
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‘He (Malcolm) said ‘do something romantic, look at history’
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1989 Women In Fashion said Punk freed women to dress as prositutes
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‘Punk’s awesome manipulation of sexual clichés threatened the time honoured...
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Viv on populate
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“Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people.”
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