Lot 47
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'EXHIBITION' COLLECTION, AUTUMN-WINTER 2004⁄05
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'EXHIBITION' COLLECTION, AUTUMN-WINTER 2004⁄05
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'EXHIBITION' COLLECTION, AUTUMN-WINTER 2004⁄05
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'EXHIBITION' COLLECTION, AUTUMN-WINTER 2004⁄05
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ExhibitionVivienne Westwood named her Autumn/Winter 2004–2005 collection ‘Exhibition’, in reference to her forthcoming major retrospective at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum opening on 1 April 2004. 'The mood was of retrospection and revision ahead of the opening...Clothes hung in garment bags on the side of the runway, like an archive being opened up for the audience. Westwood says: You can’t copy the past, but there are things that, when you try to copy, you discover things from today. The clothes connected the now with the then, refracted through a contemporary lens, rather than constituting an exercise in rehash’ (see A. Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk, London, 2021, p.470).
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'EXHIBITION' COLLECTION, AUTUMN-WINTER 2004 / 05

A BROWN JUMBO CORDUROY ‘DRUNKER TAILORS’ TWO PIECE TROUSER SUIT

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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD,
'EXHIBITION' COLLECTION,
AUTUMN-WINTER 2004 / 05
A BROWN JUMBO CORDUROY ‘DRUNKER TAILORS’ TWO PIECE TROUSER SUIT
With asymmetric jacket gathered unevenly, with two exterior hip pockets and a breast pocket; the outsized ankle grazer trousers with side button fly and interior cotton supports, Gold Label
Literature
V. Westwood, Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood, London, 2016, p. 367, illustrated.
A. Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections, London, 2021, p. 471, 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).

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Lot Essay

Andreas Kronthaler (in conversation) noted that this was his wife’s favourite suit and that she wore it very often and could often be seen cycling in it. It is a triumph of twisted tailoring with no seam centred and no button where you might expect it to be. When worn, however, everything falls into place around the body.

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