Essays on Vivienne Westwood

Throughout this essay I am going to be discussing the direct link between how music becomes an influence for fashion and especially influences those in the subculture of punk. I will discuss how both the lyrics, style and clothing of musical icons provided a base for those who followed in their direction and led to...

Introduction The 20th century holds a strong significance in history as a decade of new beginnings and attitudes towards design. The importance of design is illustrated throughout this decade, as we see moments in time that are defined by the clothes people wear or the designs that are created. Fashion especially changed throughout the century,...

Vivienne Westwood and Iris Van Herpen are two current western designers. Having inadvertently pioneered the mainstreaming of punk fashion in the 1980’s and becoming disillusioned with the fashion industry’s ability to subsume and celebrate her anti-establishment agenda, Westwood took on sustainability as her cause in a long-term political act of challenge. Iris Van Herpen has...