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Always On Camera‘For Autumn / Winter 1992–1993, Vivienne Westwood was inspired by the glamour of 1930s Hollywood…The collection played with stereotypes of movie-star glamour, some of which Westwood may have remembered from films of her childhood in the 1940s and 1950s: headscarves, sunglasses, swathes of faux fur, and mohair sweaters like those worn by 1950s starlets. Against draped red velvet cinema curtains, many of the clothes had a similar rosy hue, with leopards and tartans blushed pink. Marlene Dietrich was the muse: her once-sensational cross-dressing was very much akin to Westwood’s continuing love of sexual provocation, and her ghost stalked the catwalk in raffish double-breasted tweed trouser suits, the female models sometimes sporting a stuck on moustache.’Alexander Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk
VIVENNE WESTWOOD, 'ALWAYS ON CAMERA' COLLECTION, AUTUMN-WINTER 1992 / 93
A HARRIS TWEED THREE PIECE SUIT
Details
VIVENNE WESTWOOD,
'ALWAYS ON CAMERA' COLLECTION,
AUTUMN-WINTER 1992 / 93
A HARRIS TWEED THREE PIECE SUIT
Comprising a double breasted 1940's-style jacket with four flap pockets and two breast pockets, exaggerated lapels; a waistcoat, 'Oxford Bag' trousers and an alternate skirt of matching tweed, trimmed with amber plastic buttons; together with a wool checked 'Tattersall' shirt and kipper tie with embroidered 'Orb' motif, Gold Label
'ALWAYS ON CAMERA' COLLECTION,
AUTUMN-WINTER 1992 / 93
A HARRIS TWEED THREE PIECE SUIT
Comprising a double breasted 1940's-style jacket with four flap pockets and two breast pockets, exaggerated lapels; a waistcoat, 'Oxford Bag' trousers and an alternate skirt of matching tweed, trimmed with amber plastic buttons; together with a wool checked 'Tattersall' shirt and kipper tie with embroidered 'Orb' motif, Gold Label
Literature
A. Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections, London, 2021, p. 261, identical model illustrated.
Further details
The Estate of Vivienne Westwood will donate 100% of the total hammer proceeds received for the sale of her personal wardrobe, less auction expenses, to be split equally between The Vivienne Foundation, Médecins Sans Frontières (a charity registered in England and Wales with charity number 1026588) and Amnesty International (registered in England and Wales with charity number 1051681).
