SEDUCED INTO SEDITION ( PART 2)

Another Vivienne Westwood Archive Trip

PHOTOS: RICCARDO SLAVIK

STYLING: RICCARDO SLAVIK & ALESSANDRA PISTOLESI

GROOMING: GIADA RUSMINI

MODEL: ANDREA AT THE CLAW

ALL CLOTHES AND ACCESSORIES VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, except, white sneakers, model’s own

Bind me, tie me, chain me to the wall
I wanna be a slave to you all Oh bondage, up yours
Oh bondage, no more
Oh bondage, up yours
Oh bondage, no more Chain-store chainsmoke, I consume you all
Chain-gang chainmail, I don’t think at all Oh bondage, up yours
Oh bondage, no more
Oh bondage, up yours
Oh bondage, no more Thrash, me crush me, beat me till I fall
I wanna be a victim for you all

“Oh Bondage Up Yours!” X-Ray Specs 1977

Rain cape and pants Vivienne Westwood Man FW 2013

“There’s this idea that somehow you’ve got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they’d get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.”
— Vivienne Westwood

Bondage jacket and pants, Vivienne Westwood Man, ‘tits’ chenille top Vivienne Westwood Man FW 2006

Jersey jacket with mesh hood-panel Vivienne Westwood SS 2011 pirate shirt and bondage jeans Anglomania Vivienne Westwood

Jacket with trompe l’oeil waistcoat Vivienne Westwood Man SS 2011, check shirt, tie and ‘Prince Charming’ scarf, Vivienne Westwood

‘ Gaia’ print sweatshirt, Vivienne Westwood Man FW 2010, bondage trousers Anglomania late 90s

Linen bondage jacket and ‘Art’ silk jersey top, Vivienne Westwood Man, bondage trousers Anglomania late 90s

‘Active Resistance’ waistcoat Vivienne Westwood Archive

short sleeve shirt and pants Vivienne Westwood Man

” Did I change the silhouette? I changed the silhouette back from the big shoulder to the small shoulder later on in my career, especially working with Andreas, because he has been, for the last 20 years or more, designing as much as I am. I don’t know if everybody knows that. But he’s really responsible. In fact, most of the time, I kind of act like his assistant. He’s the boss. He cares so much about it. I mean, it hurts him if something isn’t sewn properly. It’s an extreme aesthetic aesthetic appreciation of beauty and the human potential in clothes.
I’ve got a really strong special intelligence. I’m the one who does the cutting principles. Andreas is the one who can get the really wonderful fits, and he thinks of principles, but mine are more based on the idea of geometry: You cut a slit and you open it up. His are more, “I want this effect, and how do I get this effect?” I can get the cloth to work with the body one way, and he works in another way. One of the best things he did was that he decided our tailoring should be what we call the alcoholic jacket, or sometimes the drunken tailor dress. He said, “I want it to look like it was made by a drunken tailor.” And it does, and it’s really dynamic because it’s like you’re in motion before you even move. It’s brilliant.”
Vivienne Westwood Interview 2012