"Vivienne Westwood" (D2022)


 

"...Takahashi's  stalwart  tartan,  punk  and  layered  looks  keep  the  collection  centered, while  the  couture  like  elegance,  with  its  detailing  gave  the  styles  extra  depth,  it  is  by  far  one  of  the most  intricate  of  collections  from  Takahashi.  From  black  1970's  cocktail  dresses  with  it's Vivienne  Westwood  and the late Malcolm  McLaren's  1976  “Clothes  for  Heroes”  homage,  Takahashi has  up  the  ante  in  regards  to  his  fascination  with  Kings  Road  Punk looks of yersteryear  1977, such as the  Sex  Pistols  inspired fashions,  with  accessories..."

"...However, one cannot dismiss the major influences on early 80's runway styles by the stalwart UK designer Vivienne Westwood, after her and Malcolm McLaren collaboration in bringing the aesthetics of punk to high end fashion..."

"...This is Yamamoto's intensified take on the uniformity of military attire, yet it feels also similar to the early 1980s styles of UK designers and Japanese as they descended on Paris and reworked couture, primarily because of the influences of Punk, which could be seen as duplication of causal factors that originated, ironically, from the French Situantionists avant garde art moment of the 1950s and early 1970s, American garage rock styles ala the mid 70s band “Richard Hell and the Voidoids” and Malcolm Maclaren and Vivienne Westwood who were able to draw in all the mentioned trends in its defining of 1977 UK punk styles..."

"...And it seems that Leba has moved up a notch of the mentioned time-line from 70's punk onto the 1982 era of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood oversize hats, more so Westwood's Autumn/Winter 83' collection titled 'Buffalo Girl's', of Peruvian inspired looks which were sold onto, via McLaren, emerging hip hop styles that were gaining momentum on the streets of NYC at the time..."

"...While the history of punk as far as its aesthetics may question its origination, it is of doubt Vivian Westwood and Malcolm McLaren were directly responsible for bridging the 1956-1972 French Situationist art movement as a key factor to the Do-it-Yourself Punk fashions, except they made money on crafting the aesthetics into a new (at the time) and directed way as oppose to the ad-hoc trends that followed thereafter..."

"...Early Punk rock fashion homage ala Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul Gaultier, but forty years too late, with throwbacks to 1980s Japanese designers re-working couture fashion.  Not very original.  A trip down memory lane and a history lesson.  Once would have wooed, now  just a carbon copy.  Unfortunate."
 


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