“Vivienne Westwood is one of the most iconic fashion designers of the last 30 years.”(Victoria and Albert Museum, 2004) Vivienne Westwood is a fashion designer who was born in Glossopdale, Derbyshire, 1941. To her, clothes were one of the way she uses to deconstruct cliché and convention. The subtext of her subject of her explorations of clothes was very shocking, and it had been signposted in the name and themes of her collections. They sometimes included humour and she represented the amusement of fashion. (Polan and Tredre, 2009) Thus her attitude had tremendous repercussions on one of the youth culture, punk, after she met Malcolm McLaren, who was a manager of British Punk band Sex Pistols. This essay will discuss about the history with
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By 1975, the store had been renamed ‘Sex’. The inside interior was sprayed with pornographic graffiti, hung with rubber curtains and stocked with sex and fetish wear. She was excited to the forbidden clothing such as Nazi logo which is abandoned at old-generation and what it aroused. She said ‘All the clothes I wore people would regard as shocking, I wore them because I just thought that I looked like a princess from another planet.'(Polan and Tredre, 2009) In 1976, when shop’s name was changed ‘Seditionaries’, they provided Bondage wear which aroused fetishism with using zipper or leather ropes. Paul Cook who is the one of the member of Sex Pistols said “It was an intense time and there was a lot of violence directed at punks. Vivienne and Malcolm McLaren’s shop was one of the few places you could hand around without feeling uncomfortable. The band was formed there from people who used to come in or work there at the weekends. We were never told what to wear, but we had free rein in the shop, particulartly when it was re-names Seditionaries and we could wear the bondage trousers and the clothes with strapes and zips.” (Wilcox, 2004) Even though t he clothes were not cheap, the Punks extemprorised their gear and the look diffused quickly. During this period, Punk started to influence on people’s looking and one of the famous sentence and artwork ‘God Save the Queen’ was made up for Sex Pistols’ album which is released in 1977. Through this time, everything of her such as life or career had met a turning point. With her life, Punk look became mainstream fashion as a component with
By 1975, the store had been renamed ‘Sex’. The inside interior was sprayed with pornographic graffiti, hung with rubber curtains and stocked with sex and fetish wear. She was excited to the forbidden clothing such as Nazi logo which is abandoned at old-generation and what it aroused. She said ‘All the clothes I wore people would regard as shocking, I wore them because I just thought that I looked like a princess from another planet.'(Polan and Tredre, 2009) In 1976, when shop’s name was changed ‘Seditionaries’, they provided Bondage wear which aroused fetishism with using zipper or leather ropes. Paul Cook who is the one of the member of Sex Pistols said “It was an intense time and there was a lot of violence directed at punks. Vivienne and Malcolm McLaren’s shop was one of the few places you could hand around without feeling uncomfortable. The band was formed there from people who used to come in or work there at the weekends. We were never told what to wear, but we had free rein in the shop, particulartly when it was re-names Seditionaries and we could wear the bondage trousers and the clothes with strapes and zips.” (Wilcox, 2004) Even though t he clothes were not cheap, the Punks extemprorised their gear and the look diffused quickly. During this period, Punk started to influence on people’s looking and one of the famous sentence and artwork ‘God Save the Queen’ was made up for Sex Pistols’ album which is released in 1977. Through this time, everything of her such as life or career had met a turning point. With her life, Punk look became mainstream fashion as a component with