Vivienne Westwood S/S 09 Paris

[DuTTyRoCK112]

Her dresses are stunning.

[Matay]

the clothes are so gooooood!
and the shoes!!!
Vivienne always has great shoes!
they seem to be derived from older designs..
like sack boots minus the toe bit, toeless bondage boots and the straps only from the pirate boots.

[Brighid]

What a crazy collection! But I really like some pieces!

[adorefaith]

there is some GREAT stuff in here.. some pieces i could do without.. but a lot of brilliance too imo.. thanks for posting!

[*ana*]

^agreed.

i'll dream of those thigh high strappy sandals

[Chanel_Ivan]

this is so much fun. Looking at that "fruit roll up" dress makes me hungry. So much energy and wittiness.

[thiago:)]

Well there are some pieces that I can't stand...
But there are anothers that Wow, I love.

[borjacapella]

SPOT ON collection!!
i love it! i have the feeling galliano's collections for dior used to be like this... or at least, it's the same sensation i get after going through it.
i cant help wondering... why cant he do it anymore?
BRAVO VIVIENNE! i never really knew how to appreciate her work (always heard she was great and all... but i never thought it was my thing), but i will sure be paying a lot more attention to her previous work, and the one to come!

[Alejandro]

"IN these hard times - dress up. Do it yourself!" said Vivienne Westwood in her handwritten show notes, before describing exactly how to with ideas including "badges (preferably with political slogans), and shawls, blankets, tablecloths, curtains, towels or a metre of beautiful fabric worn enfolded around you instead of coats or cloaks (plastic sheeting for the rain)".

And that's just what she did - the above teamed with striped men's boxers, ragged mesh cardigans and the aforementioned beautiful fabric (in silk pastel stripes or deep red), slung over one shoulder: a DIY toga.

But no matter how blase she tried to be, the talent that has kept Westwood in fashion's frontline all these years was plain to see: amazing gladiatorial heels with straps all the way up each leg, T-shirt-corset hybrids that were edgy and girly all at once and her brilliantly constructed corset dresses with a swathe of extra silk flung elegantly over one shoulder.

Westwood mixes things up with such confident nonchalance that you can't help be carried along with it - suddenly Coronation Street headscarves look right along side Amazonian swathes of leopard print and ragged net curtain dresses. Well maybe not right, exactly, but inspirational in their randomness. Die-hard Westwood fan, Tracey Emin, was whooping in the front row to prove it.

--Dolly Jones; http://www.vogue.co.uk/fashion/show....report/id,6699

[ultramarine]

This collection has this ... fashion victim vibe ... but in a good way ... I havent seen a collection this chic in AGES ... for real ... the fruit roll up dress on Han -as baptised here- its .. well... all of it rocks!

[JuiceMajor]

Review from Style.com

PARIS, September 29, 2008
By Nicole Phelps

Bustles, exposed undergirdings, swaddled fabrics—the Vivienne Westwood touchstones have been coming fast and furious from all quarters lately. You could even make the argument that the geometric flaps that have appeared everywhere from Calvin Klein to Dolce & Gabbana were pioneered by Dame Viv. So she's finally seizing the moment to explore the more commercial side of her own oeuvre, right? Not a chance.

This is a designer who wears a headband with the anti-consumerist message "branded" scrolled across it, the one who sends out a new muckraking slogan T-shirt each season. This time it read: "We need an estimated $30 billion per year to save the rain forest." That message inspired the show's "Do It Yourself" conservation theme. Call it bedsheet couture: Everything from Westwood's familiar asymmetrically wrapped-and-bustled dresses to the capes flung across one shoulder came in frayed fabrics that looked like they could in previous lives have been tablecloths, drapes, or shower curtains.

Ghetto-fabulous dhoti pants exposed the crotches of models' boxer shorts. Girls wore headscarves as knickers. And there's not much of a retail future in a clear plastic jacket and ball skirt (embroidered in a more traditionally ball skirt-ish striped fabric)—although it undeniably had a certain undone charm. In its very madness, it was classic Westwood.

[quijano]

this collection is amazing. i especially love the shoes!

[simple_elegance]

...what? *tilts head to side in confuzzlement* the only pieces i see anyone wearing are those two red dresses and that dark bluish dress with the one strap.

[Bidwell]

Her madness at one time resonated genius, brazen lust. It hasn't for quite a while now.
It's as dissapointing as watching Johnny Rotten do a silly butter commercial.

[RuxBerry]

mmm...I like it...Here is a "stylized" Elisabeth Swann("Pirates of the Caribbean")...the portet of the strong, unpredictible, curageous and extravagant woman.
I adore the headwears as well as the shoes, and this wild mixture of old and new.I think that vivienne has proved once again her skills of "cloth's Dj".
Watching this collection, it instigates you to "create"...amazing...Here is shown that past and present can play together and form smth. innovative and pleased to wathch.