Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag Ladies

Vivienne Westwood showed her fall collection at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, a venue more usually home barristers and solicitors than teenaged models made over to look like crazy cat ladies who'd had one too many go-rounds with Marge Simpson's makeup gun. What fun!

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Charlotte Free, the newly famous pink-haired model, opened the show.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

The makeup, in case you couldn't tell, was pretty extraordinary: gold leaf was heavily implicated.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

And you gotta love that quizzical right eyebrow.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS


Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

The collection involved lots of layers.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

As well as crooked ties.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

And bag-lady co-ordinates.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

And circus tent skirts.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS


Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

If the straitjacket fits...

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag LadiesS

The whole thing was topped off with a variety of undersized chapeaux. Very Tim & Eric.

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Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag Ladies

I love how that crazy dress manages, somehow, to make that model's boobs look awesome. Even a skinny-ass runway model can have awesome looking boobs, with that dress! That's the magic of Vivienne Westwood, right there.

Vivienne Westwood's Fall Collection Is For Awesome Bag Ladies


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Never mind the, er, clown coat. That has no boob-tastic effects.