Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life - Brossura

Mulvagh, Jane

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ISBN 10: 0006386849 ISBN 13: 9780006386841

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 1999

Riassunto

The first biographical portrait of one of England’s great eccentrics and leading fashion designers – the outrageously controversial fashion anarchist, agent provocateur and sacred cow of the international fashion world, Vivienne Westwood.

· For two decades, Vivienne Westwood has been Britain’s most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric and controversial designer. In that time she has evolved from an iconoclastic outsider to an internationally revered figure, with two British Designer of the Year awards, an OBE, her own successful fashion label and an unrivalled reputation for leading where other designers follow.
· Her lifestyle could scarcely be in greater contrast to the opulence which surrounds other leading designers: she continues to live in a modest council flat in South London, and travels around the capital by bicycle, dressed in her own flamboyant creations, with a plastic bag protecting her hair from the elements. How did an awkward girl from a conventional and provincial background become one of world fashion’s most influential and respected designers? How has she managed to remain true to her own idiosyncratic vision, refusing to conform to the fashion industry’s, and society’s, expectations?
· Speaking to Westwood herself, her friends, lovers, colleagues, rivals, admirers and detractors, Jane Mulvagh has created a portrait as rich, distinctive and constantly surprising as her subject’s character and work.

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Recensione:

‘The most compelling fashion biography for years. Honest, witty, perceptive, vivid. Each chapter is filled with insights’ Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune
‘A commanding study. Westwood’s life is rendered with intensity and precision’ Simon Garfield, Mail on Sunday
‘A very good book: immaculately researched and full of original observations’ Stephen Bayley, Observer
‘Nobody could read this book and not understand why it is that Westwood continues to interest and infuriate in equal measure’ Lucia van der Post, Financial Times

L'autore:

Jane Mulvagh is a fashion historian, journalist, columnist on the Financial Times, author of The Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion (Viking) and Costume Jewelry in Vogue (Thames and Hudson). She has known Vivienne Westwood for fifteen years.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0006386849
• ISBN 13: 9780006386841
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 416