Vivienne Westwood A Life In Fashion

Exhibition Peroid
1 Dec. 2008 to 31 Jan. 2009

Venue
ArtisTree, 3/F Cornwall House, Taikoo Place, Island East

As a legend in the history of fashion,Vivienne Westwood represents the revolutional change ever happened in the last century's fashion industry.The exihibion mainly focuses on the 40 years history of this mistry fashion brand, exhibiting more than 150 sets of clothings that symbolizes the life style and idea of Vivienne Westwood.

Fashion also can be a kind of art. In the worldwide enviroment, fashion industry blooms the global economics. From the most people's view, fashion is something making people only care about their experience and what espect they refer to fashion is luxury. However, the aim of Vivienne Westwood exhibition is to overthrow the tradional definition of fashion industry, fashion can be an art and fashion can influence the society in its own way.

The exhibition is arranged by time sequence, begins with the Westwood's first boutique opened in 1971 named LET IT ROCK. Along with the success of the boutique, Vivienne and her husband McLaren raised PUNK in the youngster's society of that time and enjoying the idea of "using culture as a way of making troubles". The most famous punk band Sex Pistol emergenced in that time and managed by McLaren.

PUNK culture has influenced thousands and thousands young people in the last century. Viviennne Westwood printed the fragmentized Birtish national flag as a symbol on her T-shirt. What she wanted is to inform the world of the rebel value in the current post-war British society.

But that is just only one part of her early fashion career. She is a rebel aganist the traditional world, but she is rather than a designer. She can be said the artist fighting with the mainstream conception not only in what people dress also in the way which people think. She wants to change the world by herself what so impressed me a lot through her exhibiton.