Lot Essay
Kate Moss was photographed by Juergen Teller wearing an identical look, illustrated.
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Climate Revolution'What have we got here? Global exotic. No matter where you start a collection you absorb the world around you and carry it onto your projection... A kind person sent us a little book on beetles “for inspiration”. Coloured markings and patches, iridescence, wing cases and wings, hard articulated bits, antennae. We interpreted the patches as holes filled with ruched self-fabric which puffed up but pulled and stretched and because these patches didn’t fit very well they left little corners and lumps sticking up around where they were inserted. These insect cuts talk about human bodies. Then – because we had visited the Prado – there is the influence of costume in Velasquez; slashed clothes had evolved into great bands describing large silhouettes....Really the only connection with the collection and the Climate Revolution is the title but I want to remind you that it has begun'Vivienne Westwood
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, 'CLIMATE REVOLUTION' COLLECTION, SPRING-SUMMER 2013
CLOUD PRINTED STRETCH POLY ACETATE TWO PIECE ENSEMBLE
Details
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD,
'CLIMATE REVOLUTION' COLLECTION,
SPRING-SUMMER 2013
CLOUD PRINTED STRETCH POLY ACETATE TWO PIECE ENSEMBLE
The jacket and trousers with fabric reversing to grey satin, the jacket with pouched breast pockets and leg of mutton sleeves, the straight legged trousers with knee pouches, both with exposed raw seams, the jacket with label inscribed 'SS15, #34', Gold Label
'CLIMATE REVOLUTION' COLLECTION,
SPRING-SUMMER 2013
CLOUD PRINTED STRETCH POLY ACETATE TWO PIECE ENSEMBLE
The jacket and trousers with fabric reversing to grey satin, the jacket with pouched breast pockets and leg of mutton sleeves, the straight legged trousers with knee pouches, both with exposed raw seams, the jacket with label inscribed 'SS15, #34', Gold Label
Literature
V. Westwood, Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood, London, 2016, p. 460, illustrated.
Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections, London, 2021, p. 538, identical model illustrated.
Fury, Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections, London, 2021, p. 538, 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).