“
People should buy clothes only when absolutely necessary,” said iconic Fashion
designer Vivienne Westwood, after her show at London Fashion Week. Proving that
the Godmother of Punk still dances to her own tune Westwood said:
“My
way of not wasting is trying to concentrate on quality not quantity. My message
is buy well, choose less, make it last.
Even better don’t buy anything! Don’t buy anything for ages until you really
have to.”
When
she was asked “so don’t you want people to buy this collection?”, she replied, “No!
I wish they wouldn’t I really don’t care. “
In
an era where we’re deluged with cheaply made clothes in impoverished factories
to cater to the fast fashion circuit today, Westwood’s take home message of
buying less, but buying quality, is fashion taking us forward. An eccentric
figure in a "Climate Revolution" T-shirt, stripy hot pants, a
sequined bowler, and an inked-on black eye and moustache, she, quite honestly, still
totally rocks.
It’s
this sort of chutzpah that is missing in fashion right now. The collection was
gorgeous too. She’s as punk as she ever was.
2 comments:
Great post - Vivian Westwood is my favourite designer and activist.
Nice post Vivian...
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