Vivienne Westwood: creative and provocative spirit

Punk, romantic, regal, ironic, unisex, dandy, 18th century lady. The hundred, thousand facets of Vivienne Westwood, all combined into one. The collection proposed by the British designer for 2004 (produced by Allison) retraces her career and her story as a designer and pillar of fashion. Glasses that concentrate in a nutshell more than 30 years of fashion, talent, provocation, seduction and a wealth of creative spirit.

Materials that focus on mixtures, acetates associated with metal and unique, bright colors with great impact, such as violet, red, petroleum blue, lobster and shocking pink. But there are also such precious materials as mother-of-pearl combined with black.

The 503 model pays homage to the punk transgressions, with lenses on the front and at the sides, with a tiny skull incorporated in a metal surround to symbolize those unrepeatable times of protest and creative spirit that were the Seventies.
Then comes the romantic Lady Viv, ideally condensed into the all-plastic 510 model, its symbol the orb, a satellite ring round a planet that is somehow reminiscent of a royal scepter. The silhouette is highly feminine and given a precious final touch by the pattern of genuine Swarovski crystals on the sides. The 502 model reinterprets the designer's logo with a W situated on the sides, sketch and signature of this lady of fashion, which goes right back to the Eighties. The colors of the lenses and frames are in contrast: silver and bordeaux or black and petroleum blue.

For the eyeglasses, Westwood has chosen ironic, creative models, with cylindrical embellishments applied to the hinge, or the sides in the shape of barbed wire, or in the form of a feather. Rimless lenses for the extremely lightweight VW 08 model with sides that reflect the soft and wavy lie of the feathers on a bird.

Soft colors that alternate pale and darker shades. Faces with milky white complexions, enhanced by important brown-tinted lenses full of seductive details. The Vivienne Westwood advertising campaign, photographed by Corinne Day, strikes an evocative chord. The setting is an old, abandoned school charged with an atmosphere suspended between dream and reality. An image that reflects the style of this designer, always careful to stimulate an intense and creative view of the world around us.