Under McLaren's guidance and influence, Westwood slid into the world of youthful fashion, which reflected the turmoil of those rebellious times. She was responsible for mirroring and outfitting the social movements characterized by the growing segments of British population known as the Teddy Boys, Rockers, and, finally, the Punks.
In the duo began making drastic changes in British style with a series of shops located at Kings Road. The first was Let It Rock, a s revival boutique, coinciding with the Teddy Boys movement and zoot suits.
The store also sold s memorabilia and rock music. In Westwood and McLaren opened their infamous Sex Shop, selling bondage and fetish fashions of rubber and leather. Rock star Adam Ant has commented that, "Sex was one of the all-time greatest shops in history.
The concept of satirical style and subversive chic was foremost in Westwood and McLaren's minds. Inspired by the work of French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau, Westwood took the 'sack back' dress and injected it with a thoroughly modern asymmetry, adding a single off-shoulder cut and polonaise pouf a swagged overskirt inspired by Polish national costume. Throughout the s, Westwood used new technologies to borrow images from history in a more immediate way, printing facsimiles of favourite paintings directly onto her designs.
She filtered the original dress through the lens of her trademark asymmetry and eccentric swagger, creating an innovative curved-seam design that still makes looking backwards seem incredibly forward-thinking.
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They were often worn by men, exhibiting themes of gender identity and fluidity. Westwood's collection, her last with McLaren, was inspired by Haitian voodoo and a meeting with artist Keith Haring. His bright, graffiti-inspired designs resembled hieroglyphs, which inspired the collection's magical name, Witches. The garments featuring Haring's art were designed with a hip-hop style, as McLaren was greatly interested in earlys American hip-hop culture. Dubbed the "mini-crini", this hooped mini skirt form evokes the style of 19th century crinolines.
The look was inspired by Petrushka, a ballet burlesque, and a wish to counteract the big masculine shoulders of s fashion. In , Mclaren opened a boutique shop at Kings Road in London and started filling it with Westwood's designs. While the name of the shop seemed to be in constant flux — it was changed five times — it proved to be an important fashion center for the punk movement. When Mclaren became the manager of the Sex Pistols, it was Westwood's designs that dressed the band and help it carve out its identity.
But as the punk movement faded, Westwood was hardly content to rest on her laurels. She's constantly been ahead of the curve, not just influencing fashion, but often times dictating it. After her run with the Sex Pistols, Westwood went an entirely new direction with her Pirate collection of frilly shirts and other attire. Her styles have also included the mini-crini of the s and the frayed tulle and tweed suit of the s. She's even proved it's perfectly possible to make a subversive statement with underwear.
Coupled with Westwood's unconventional style sense, is an outspokenness and daring that demonstrates a certain level of fearlessness about her and her work. In one famous incident, she impersonated Margaret Thatcher on the cover of a British magazine.
To do so, she wore a suit Thatcher had ordered but not yet received, an act that made Thatcher irate.
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