Vivienne Westwood Glamorously Rides Tank to Protest Fracking

Vivienne Westwood made an unforgettable entrance when she arrived at the home of British Prime Minister David Cameron to protest fracking. Escorted by people in camouflage gear, the fashion designer rolled up in a white armored personnel carrier to join other protesters who wore gas masks. “We are here to poison the…
Punk Queen Vivienne Westwood Holds Mad Max-Style Anti-Fracking Protest
Fashion designer/punk icon/lifelong activist Dame Vivienne Westwood half-asses nothing, so when she staged her brilliant protest against fracking in London yesterday, it was replete with post-apocalyptic zombie models on stilts, presumably examples of what we will become in a fracking world. She also carried a…
Vivienne Westwood Backs Scottish Independence at London Fashion Week
Now that New York Fashion Week has ended, London Fashion Week is in full swing. Over the weekend, Vivienne Westwood showed a collection that looks like the wardrobe of a school play about pirates that's been half-foraged from a lost and found. But it has a political message: by affixing "YES" pins to several of the…
Ogle Oodles of Tulle at This Exhibit on the History of Wedding Dresses
Over the last couple of centuries, wedding dresses have mutated, Godzilla-like, from a gown worn while saying vows to the centerpiece of a huge industry. If you're curious how that happened—and, more importantly, keen to gawk at some really luxe examples of the form—there's a new museum exhibit devoted to the topic.
Start Your New Year With Vivienne Westwood Tutus and Julie Andrews
Most of us will be waking up with a hangover on New Year's Day. But here's one way to class up time spent prostrate on the couch: A concert heavy on the Strauss, hosted by your TV nana Julie Andrews and complete with ballet interlude featuring costumes designed by Vivienne Westwood.
Vivienne Westwood, For The Punk Wife of Bath in You
Inspired by an illuminated manuscript from the 1300s, the original "Queen of Punk," Dame Vivienne Westwood, swaddled this year's Paris Autumn/Winter 2013 runway looks in sackcloth cloaks and oversized coats that wouldn't be out of place in The Canturbury Tales. The models were even brushed with sallow plague-y…
Lindsay Lohan Borrows Designer Dress, Unsurprisingly Returns It in Shreds
So Lindsay Lohan asks to borrow a designer dress for the amFAR gala from stylist Phillip Bloch, whose number she got from Charlie Sheen. Is any part of what I just said a valid reason to hand over a $1,750 dress of intricate beadwork and gossamer fairy tits and silkworms that only eat free-range food and drink fair…
Vivienne Westwood, for the Kookiest Power Bitch in the Boardroom
New York Fashion Week is over, which means London Fashion Week is in full swing. Yesterday things got a tiny bit theatrical at the Vivienne Westwood Red Label show. While the styling — especially the makeup — was over the top, Dame Westwood delivered wearable pieces: Cozy coats, slinky dresses, menswear-inspired…
Vivienne Westwood, for the Demented Disowned Royal Heiress in You
Didn't we just see a demented Vivienne Westwood show, in London? Why yes, we did. But this is her Paris collection, a fancier, even more fucked up Spring 2013 collection: Mad queens with powdered faces and lopsided crowns, jewel-encrusted dresses with raw edges, burlap turbans, ballgowns worn with short shorts. You…
Vivienne Westwood, for the Demented Fifties Housewife on Acid in You
Now that New York Fashion Week has wrapped up, London Fashion Week has kicked off. And yesterday, punk rock icon Vivienne Westwood presented her Spring 2013 show, which channeled Mad Men: The Lost Weekend. Many of the silhouettes were completely classic, but there was always something slightly off: Perfectly-fitting…
Vivienne Westwood Says Punk Was "Just A Marketing Opportunity"
In the week of her 70th birthday, Vivienne Westwood tells the Wall Street Journal about her favorite book (A La Recherche du Temps Perdu), her favorite experience (Noh theater), and what she likes to cook (Beef Wellington). She rarely watches her own fashion shows. And the secret to a good marriage, in case you were…
Westwood-Worthy Clothes!
What could bring together Christina Hendricks, Dita Von Teese, Kristin Davis and, um, Marilyn Manson? Why, Vivienne Westwood, of course! Specifically, the opening of her Los Angeles store. And naturally, the clothes were noteworthy.
Christina Hendricks, a woman who never "downplays," "minimizes," "draws…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!
Model Regrets Playing Spin The Bottle With King Midas
London, Feb 20: A model with the world's most expensive skin condition displays an outfit by Vivienne Westwood's Red Label.
Kate Moss And Jamie Hince Enter 19th Tabloid Betrothal
- Supposedly, Kate Moss and Jamie Hince are engaged. According to tabloid reports, they were spotted leaving a jewelry store recently, so it must be true! Can't you see this is the body language of a newly engaged couple?
Baptiste Giabiconi Isn't Sure Why Karl Lagerfeld Loves Him
- Dansk magazine's wanton disregard for Baptiste Giabiconi's hotness makes us want to say to the stylist, Hey, whazz wong witz you, man? Meanwhile, it seems Giabiconi occasionally doubts his place in the heart of his Grand Monsieur, Karl Lagerfeld...
