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Vivienne Westwood (VA)

Vivienne Westwood (VA)

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Author: Claire Wilcox
Publisher: V & A Publications
Category: Book

List Price: £19.99
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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 reviews
Sales Rank: 5529

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 9.7 x 0.7

ISBN: 185177405X
Dewey Decimal Number: 746
EAN: 9781851774050
ASIN: 185177405X

Publication Date: October 3, 2005
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new and in stock - usually dispatched within 48 hours and delivered 1st Class by Royal Mail from the UK. International Delivery is by Airmail.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sea, Sun and Piracy   September 19, 2006
 13 out of 13 found this review helpful

This is a gorgeous,sumptuous book. It works precisely because it let's Vivienne's clothes speak for themselves. The full page glossy pictures of the most influential designer of the 20th Century almost make you salivate. I used to shop at World's End and wore the original Pirate range, but even then I'd still forgotten just how stunning it was. If you are interested in fashion, music, history, art, literature, anarchy and chaos, then this is for you.


5 out of 5 stars worth it!!   June 8, 2005
 28 out of 29 found this review helpful

If like me, you are fascinated by Vivienne westwood's achievements in fashion then you wont be disappointed. This book was released to accompany the V&A exhibition last year, which was fantastic. I orginially intended to buy this book at the exhibition as a souvenir of the wonderful show, however i lacked the money at the time and was over the moon when i found it on amazon.

The book itself, is better than any of the attempts at writing a decent biography of her career. This is because of the huge contribution westwood made towards the book, which includes pictures from her own collection- and most notably the foreward at the beginning from the designer herself. She worked closely with clare wilcox, who organised the V&A exhibition so she knows her stuff!

And so it begins with the foreward, then a concise history of her career. From her childhood where she made her own clothes, to her punk days with mclaren and onto the present day.
The vast majority of the book is made up of pictures/photos of her much of her collections up to the present day.

It is such an amazing book, i like to flick through it every now and then to draw some inspiration from this truly amazing designer.