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It’s probably inevitable that, in most situations, Vivienne Westwood is going to take the side of the revolutionaries. So, four days before Scotland’s historic vote on independence, the giant YES badges that she placed on her models’ lapels was no great surprise. Neither was the impassioned note left on every seat, railing against the political status quo and brimful of optimism about the impact a pro-vote might make.
Equally, Westwood’s never been one to let politics stand in the way of a good jacket. And the Red Label collection she sent out had little by way of an obvious connection to the Scottish debate – unless you counted the murky palette of peat and tobacco, sliced with cornflower blue. She’s already been down the tartan road, in any case the audience, studded with Pharrell hats and wearing a collection of old-season hits, was eloquent testimony to that.
Instead, the clothes felt relatively restrained, and reflective – slinky knitted twinsets, murky daubed prints, gathered calico-striped skirts, and lace-edged underskirts hiked up and harnessed to webbing straps. There were a group of soft, gracefully draped wrap dresses and separates in faded apricots and creams, which (in Westwood’s intensely tailored world-view) were a small revolution of their own.
But such is her standing that any Westwood show these days is going to be more about celebration than revolution. And as she made her lap of the catwalk to the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’, the audience’s applause made it clear which monarch was getting their vote.
via nowfashion.com