Vivienne westwood vivienne westwood (194 1-04-08 ~) is a British fashion designer and the "mother of punk" in the fashion world. Born into a worker's family in the north of England. She used to be an outstanding figure in punk movement, and her achievements should be attributed to the inspiration and guidance of her second husband, Malcolm McLovin, the founder and agent of the famous British rock band "Sex Gunmen". She gave rock and roll a typical appearance, such as T-shirts, zippers, pornographic slogans, metal chains and so on. , has been affecting today. Together with McLovin, she opened the first clothing store in King's Road, London, called "Rock", which specializes in clothes worn by street teenagers. Later, their shop was renamed several times to make clothes for rock musicians and punk. Creation and rebellion have always been the center of her life. Because of her promotion, punk culture had a revolutionary influence on high fashion. Because she gave a great blow to French traditional high fashion in a completely negative and rude way, and also won a place for British fashion in the international fashion world, the Queen of England awarded her a gold medal. She will always be a revolutionary fashion designer. For many years, he has always been regarded as an alternative in the clothing industry, with imaginative and bold ideas. Her style has been integrated into the mainstream design concepts: asymmetric T-shirts, cut-out raw-edge fabrics, underwear worn outside, tight-fitting clothes under tops, mini Cligny skirts, tight-fitting long skirts, waist-tied trousers, clogs and diagonal high heels. She has also influenced several generations of designers. She also designed clothes for the movie Leaving Las Vegas and operas Three Penny and Village. Even if the words "decadent", "abnormal" and "deviant" are used to describe westwood's clothes, it is no exaggeration. Because her clothes with different lengths, strange shapes and no rules really surprised the western fashion world, people can not compliment her masterpiece, but they can not but be shocked by her unique design ideas. No matter how to praise or criticize westwood's design, people have to admit that she is rare. The contribution of eccentric design ideas to today's clothing industry. Her design caters to the fashionable young people in 1980s, especially the young "punk" and "punk" in London, which makes westwood's clothing have world influence. Hayford commented: "She is the most influential designer in Britain in recent ten years, and her design concept has fundamentally changed our clothing concept." Although her design has not become the dominant fashion trend in Paris, her influence is mainly in concept. Her design concept not only greatly impacted the traditional fashion industry, but also represented the radical younger generation. In a sense, just like mary quant in the 1960s, she gave this fashion industry a violent impact. Westwood comes from the south of England. 194 1 She was born in a small place called Dinster Village. Her father works in the mechanical workshop of an ice cream factory. Although she is not rich, her childhood is happy. Westwood is smart and excellent at school, and won many scholarships in middle school. Later, her parents saved money and donated money to buy a post office in Harrow Town in the south, so her family moved to the south. Later, she recalled. When I went to Harrow Art School, I was still completely working-class thinking. She studied in Harrow Art School for a semester, majoring in gold and silver jewelry design. At that time, she dreamed of becoming a teacher. In order to enter a normal university, she first went to Kodak factory to earn money, and then went to school as a teacher. At that time, she thought, "I can be a teacher and draw at the same time." Soon, she got married and gave birth to her son Benjamin. She likes painting, but she doesn't like doing housework. She thinks that the divorce is caused by her husband's laziness. Westwood has never been a step-by-step person. As a teacher, she is not the kind of person that the headmaster likes. Although the students like her very much, she is not good at getting along with her colleagues. So she had to design and make jewelry and sell it on Potobello Street. Through her younger brother, she met malm McClellan, who had an important influence on her success. They are like two drifting, swaying and crazy currents. Once they meet, there will be strong lightning, and the common interest will finally bring them together. McClellan became her mentor and partner, and westwood followed his belief in anarchy. 1970, westwood borrowed 100 from his mother, and McClellan opened a shop at No.430, King's Road, London, followed by a garage called Eden. At first, they sold records of swing and rolling stones in the 1950s. However, westwood's interest was fashion design, and soon her first clothing collection came out. Its inspiration comes from the rebellious spirit of western urban youth, and people call it "Teddy Buddy" style, which has gained social attention. Her design completely breaks away from the traditional clothing features. Combine all kinds of unimaginable materials and methods in an almost rude way. It is this grotesque and barren form that has won the applause of decadent young people in the West. Westwood's design concept is the most absurd, bizarre and original in the field of clothing. In the late 1970s, leather and rubber were used in her designs to make grotesque fashions, and gyro pants expanded like drums. A huge felt hat that must be wrapped in cloth first; T-shirts made of black leather; Pirate-style crepe clothes, beautiful big trademarks. Even the most expensive clothes are deliberately torn into holes or made into "parachuting clothes" with torn strips. In the early 1980 s, a bold approach was to wear underwear outside, even bras outside the coat, and women's underwear and pants outside the skirt. She threatened to reveal all the secrets of her family. Her crazy ideas often make foreign tourists feel creepy. She can even make the sleeves one long and one short, four feet long, tear them into pieces, piece together incongruous colors, and deliberately grab the rough sewing thread. All in all, these have become her design methods. Design style. Westwood's clothing is exactly what she pursues, violently opposing the social politics at that time and resisting the traditional stylized clothing. Her clothes often make the wearer look like a group of victims after the massacre, but also like a martyr who feels happy and satisfied spiritually. Therefore, westwood is regarded as the most creative and courageous designer in London, and her leading idea is "to hell with tradition"! Her crazy ideas are also reflected in the ever-changing store name. 197 1 year, the name of the store is "Let it swing!" 1972 was changed to "Let's go, we are too happy"; Then she changed it to "juvenile death" and 1974 changed it to "sexy" and started to do rubber and various raw materials business for "punk". 1977, she changed it to "rebellion". She said, "Our interest is to consider rebellion, and we want to annoy the British ..." The famous "doomsday" store was born. "Armageddon" has become a famous fashion store in the world today because it is the opposite of French fashion stores. Because everything in her shop is absurd, with crooked stairs, clocks walking backwards and strange clothes. The first series of Armageddon is called "Pirates" series, which hangs loosely to the knees with crepe edges. Showing a rough and dissolute spirit, "the end of the world" soon became a sacred place admired by modern young people on King's Road in London. In 2008+0982, her second shop, Nostalgia in Mud, opened, where she distributed all kinds of oils and fats that punk young people like to use to keep their hair upright, colorful and strange cosmetics. Westwood's strange clothes inspired "punk" in the street. Especially the "punk" and "tribesmen" of the King of England and hammersmith Palace. With the "punk" going to the world, westwood's popularity is getting higher and higher. In the spring of 0983, westwood held the first fashion show in Paris. Her series, called "Witch", is a modern dress that exposes the lower abdomen. There are irregular colored fabrics, rough stitches and untidy rags here. This is an unprecedented "fashion". Although her challenge may not win the attention of the whole society, it has won the attention of the whole world after all. Westwood's main admirer is the youth school which is popular in the west in recent years. They are dissatisfied with the status quo, oppose the government and tradition, and vent their extreme dissatisfaction, decadence and ridicule to society in their clothes and manners. The "punk" that prevailed in the 1980s is the same as the "hippies" and "Teddy buddies" in the past, but it is a different youth genre in clothing. The "registered trademark" of "punk" is the Indian Mohist dry hairstyle, with both sides completely shaved and a lock of short hair standing on the top of the head. Westwood designed many hair dyes, hair conditioners and hair styling agents for them, as well as strange makeup pigments, such as cyan, green and green. The clothes are worse. Westwood's clothing just reflects and represents the needs of this young cultural layer. They express their political inclinations with strange clothes and unusual hairstyles. At this point, the motives of modern people are no different from those of primitive people. In this regard, westwood said, "Clothing is a way to express everyone. In 198 1-82, her so-called neo-romantic style is a style. " "These clothes are for original exploration," she said. "I want to find romance in my own way. "She threw out a frilly pirate shirt, and the underwear wrapped in satin outside the sweater was worn on Buffalo women's clothes, which conveyed her unconventional design concept. 1985, when men's wide-shouldered women's dresses became popular in the world, a "new" skirt appeared on the hangers in the London market, which was the19th century style hemmed skirt introduced by westwood. 19986.88617 It seems that this deformed fashion is hard to win people's welcome, especially today when people are pursuing nature and fit, but this hoop skirt filled the windows in the three months after London Fashion Week in 10. Westwood is an advocate of this skirt style. Of course, she wears jeans under a bow skirt or bubble skirt. She called this kind of skirt "another classical style" or "the integrated mood of the new era". She said, "I never liked clothes with big shoulders. That's what Mugler brought. " She also said: "Women are powerful, and I don't understand why people want them to be asexual." In fact, her own designs are often capricious.