LookBook --- Westwood
This month we have chosen to pay homage to a legend.... Vivienne Westwood
We want to see YOUR take on Westwood. ... This is your opportunity to be creative.
Go High-Punk, High-Glam or High-Plaid no matter what you do it will be High-Fashion!!
Your Hosts for the night:
Gula Degatto
Shitney Houston
Michael Shaw Talley
Wolfgang Sebastian Bloodhawk
Music Curated by:
Roy G Biv
Photo booth by:
Gula Delgatto
Saturday 11.22.14
9pm - 2:30am
The Conquistador Lounge
2045...
LookBook --- Westwood
This month we have chosen to pay homage to a legend.... Vivienne Westwood
We want to see YOUR take on Westwood. ... This is your opportunity to be creative.
Go High-Punk, High-Glam or High-Plaid no matter what you do it will be High-Fashion!!
Your Hosts for the night:
Gula Degatto
Shitney Houston
Michael Shaw Talley
Wolfgang Sebastian Bloodhawk
Music Curated by:
Roy G Biv
Photo booth by:
Gula Delgatto
Saturday 11.22.14
9pm - 2:30am
The Conquistador Lounge
2045 SE Belmont, Portland, Oregon
***NO COVER***
Until then feel free to take a peek inside her world....
https://www.viviennewestwood.com/
Vivienne Westwood came to public notice when she made clothes for Malcolm McLaren's boutique in the King's Road, which became famous as "SEX". It was their ability to synthesise clothing and music that shaped the 1970s UK punk scene, dominated by McLaren's band, the Sex Pistols. She was deeply inspired by the shock-value of punk - "seeing if one could put a spoke in the system".
Westwood went on to open four shops in London, eventually expanding throughout the United Kingdom and the world, selling an increasingly varied range of merchandise, some of it linked to her many political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, climate change and the civil rights group Liberty.
She was interested in the punk fashion phenomenon of the 1970s, saying "I was messianic about punk, seeing if one could put a spoke in the system in some way". The "punk style" included BDSM fashion, bondage gear, safety pins, razor blades, bicycle or lavatory chains on clothing and spiked dog collars for jewelry, as well as outrageous make-up and hair. Essential design elements include the adoption of traditional elements of Scottish design such as tartan fabric. Among the more unusual elements of her style is the use of historical 17th- and 18th-century cloth-cutting principles, and reinterpreting these in, for instance, radical cutting lines to men's trousers. Use of these traditional elements make the overall effect of her designs more "shocking".