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| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren Paul Gorman, 2020-04-09 'I couldn't put this book down. Malcolm inspired us to make art out of our boredom and anger. He set us free' Bobby Gillespie, Primal Scream Included in the Guardian 10 best music biographies 'Excellent . . . With this book, Gorman convincingly moves away from the ossified image of McLaren as a great rock'n'roll swindler, a morally bankrupt punk Mephistopheles, and closer towards his art-school roots, his love of ideas. Tiresome, unpleasant, even cruel - he was, this book underlines, never boring' Sunday Times 'Exhaustive . . . compelling' Observer 'Definitive . . . epic' The Times 'Gobsmacker of a biography' Telegraph 'This masterful and painstaking biography opens its doorway to an era of fluorescent disenchantment and outlandish possibility' Alan Moore Malcolm McLaren was one of the most culturally significant but misunderstood figures of the modern era. Ten years after his life was cruelly cut short by cancer, The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren sheds fascinating new light on the public achievements and private life of this cultural iconoclast and architect of punk, whose championing of street culture movements including hip-hop and Voguing reverberates to this day. With exclusive contributions from friends and intimates and access to private papers and family documents, this biography uncovers the true story behind this complicated figure. McLaren first achieved public prominence as a rebellious art student by making the news in 1966 after being arrested for burning the US flag in front of the American Embassy in London. He maintained this incendiary reputation by fast-tracking vanguard and left-field ideas to the centre of the media glare, via his creation and stewardship of the Sex Pistols and work with Adam Ant, Boy George and Bow Wow Wow. Meanwhile McLaren's ground-breaking design partnership with Vivienne Westwood and his creation of their visionary series of boutiques in the 1970s and early '80s sent shockwaves through the fashion industry. The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren also essays McLaren's exasperating Hollywood years when he broke bread with the likes of Steven Spielberg though his slate of projects, which included the controversial Heavy Metal Surf Nazis and Wilde West, in which Oscar Wilde introduced rock'n'roll to the American mid-west in the 1880s, proved too rich for the play-it-safe film business. With a preface by Alan Moore, who collaborated with McLaren on the unrealised film project Fashion Beast, and an essay by Lou Stoppard casting a twenty-first-century perspective over his achievements, The Life & Times Of Malcolm McLaren is the explosive and definitive account of the man dubbed by Melvyn Bragg 'the Diaghilev of punk'. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Vivienne Westwood Fred Vermorel, 1997-10-01 Vivienne Westwood was the Queen of Punk Rock and her fashions have scandalized and fascinated the world since the Sixties. Parading models bare-breasted down the catwalks of Paris, posing pantiless outside Buckingham Palace-she has an insatiable appetite for anarchic outrageousness. She has never lost her power to shock, and her continued innovations make her one of the most talked about fashion designers in the world. But little is know about this essentially private woman. What is she like What is the secret of her success.Gleaned from more than thirty years of interviews with Westwood herself, Vivienne Westwood describes for the first time in detail Westwood's childhood and early years; it also exposes the inside story of her stormy and bizarre relationship with musician and fashionista Malcolm McLaren. The author looks at the origins of Westwood's witty and erotic sensibility, placing it in the context of the sixties, and throwing light on the dynamics of punk and on Westwood's later ability to tap into the inner logic of fashion - a Romantic perversity which is at the heart of mass consumption itself. As a dirty history of the Sixties shared by Westwood, McLaren and the author, and as a story of the triumph of a mad, bad, outrageous girl, Vivienne Westwood succeeds brilliantly. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Punk Andrew Bolton, Richard Hell, John Lydon, Jon Savage, 2013-05-15 Examines the impact of punk on fashion, focusing on its do-it-yourself, rip-it-to-shreds ethos, the antithesis of couture. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Voodoo and Magic Practices Jean Kerboull, 1978 |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Clothes for Heroes PunkPistol, Simon Easton, 2014-09 From a small boutique on London’s King’s Road in the 1970s, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood started a fashion revolution. The clothes they created during their shop’s various guises as Let It Rock, Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, SEX and finally Seditionaries provided not only the wardrobe for the Sex Pistols, but also a confrontational, taboo-busting aesthetic which continues to inspire designers to this very day. Indeed, their work appeared to have no precedent, as if the designs had appeared out of nowhere. A rubber T-shirt with bicycle tyres sewn around the arms and chicken bones spelling out ‘VENUS’ attached to the front. Images culled from pornographic magazines and Disney cartoons. Bondage trousers with straps between the legs restricting movement and a zip running around the crotch. Clothes made out of muslin, straggly mohair and towelling. Clothes to get you noticed and – on occasion – arrested. Today they are collectors’ items, sold for high prices in auction houses and hungrily sought out by investors and museums. PunkPistol, the author of Clothes for Heroes, has amassed what is widely seen as the world’s largest and most significant collection of Sex and Seditionaries clothing, much of which has never appeared in print or exhibitions before. In this book he has combined stunning photography of that collection, rare and unseen images from inside 430 King's Road and the 1970s punk scene, designs which never saw the light of day, and original testimony from key witnesses to the clothes’ creation, to produce the ultimate visual history of one of the key partnerships in contemporary popular culture. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Clothes for Heroes Simon Easton, 2014-10-07 Clothes for Heroes: The Punk Fashions of Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren is a visual history of the 1970s fashion revolution that was born out of a small London boutique at 430 King’s Road. Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren not only dressed the Sex Pistols, but also pioneered the confrontational, taboo-busting punk aesthetic that continues to inspire designers to this day. From T-shirts adorned with rubber to bondage trousers and clothes made of muslin, their designs were meant to shock. The author has amassed what is perhaps the world’s largest and most significant collection of clothing from the shop’s history, much of which has never appeared in print. The book, housed in a striking slipcase, features stunning images of the clothing and rare photos of the 1970s punk scene, accompanied by interviews and commentary from those who were there. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Musical Paintings Malcolm McLaren, 2009 Text by Delia Brown, Rodney Graham, Damien Hirst. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Alain Elkann Interviews , 2017-09-15 Alain Elkann has mastered the art of the interview. With a background in novels and journalism, and having published over twenty books translated across ten languages, he infuses his interviews with innovation, allowing them to flow freely and organically. Alain Elkann Interviews will provide an unprecedented window into the minds of some of the most well-known and -respected figures of the last twenty-five years. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Pretty Vacant Phil Strongman, 2008 Traces the history of punk music from its underground roots to the mainstream charts, from Britain to the U.S., including bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Buzzcocks, and the Talking Heads, and figures such as Sid Vicious and Iggy Pop. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Sex and Seditionaries PunkPistol, 2006 |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Punk Is Dead Richard Cabut, Andrew Gallix, 2017-10-27 This original collection of insight, analysis and conversation charts the course of punk from its underground origins, when it was an un-formed and utterly alluring near-secret, through its rapid development. Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night takes in sex, style, politics and philosophy, filtered through punk experience, while believing in the ruins of memory, to explore a past whose essence is always elusive. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Fashion & Perversity Fred Vermorel, 1997 The story of one of fashion's most shocking and outrageous personalities. It recounts Westwood's humble beginnings and involvement in the punk movement while also giving an insight into the personal relationships and creative impulses of this influential designer. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Diaghilev Sjeng Scheijen, 2010-08-26 This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the Ballets Russes 100 years ago draws on important new research, notably from Russia. ‘Scheijen masterfully recounts the phenomenal way in which Diaghilev contrived, under virtually impossible circumstances, to nurture a sequence of works … he triumphs in making clear the degree to which, despite the cosmopolitanism of so much of the work, Russia was at the core of Diaghilev' Simon Callow, Guardian ‘It's a fabulous, complicated, very sexy story and Sjeng Scheijen takes us through it with a steadying calm that fudges none of the outrage on or off stage' Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express 'Magnificent … filled with extraordinary glamour' Rupert Christiansen, Daily Mail |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Get a Life Vivienne Westwood, 2016-10-13 Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment. Reading Vivienne's thoughts, in her own words, is as fascinating and provocative as you would expect from Britain's punk dame - a woman who always says exactly what she believes. And what a life! One week, you might find Vivienne up the Amazon, highlighting tribal communities' struggles to maintain the rainforest; another might see her visiting Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy, or driving up to David Cameron's house in the Cotswolds in a full-on tank. Then again, Vivienne might be hanging out with her friend Pamela Anderson, or in India for Naomi Campbell's birthday party, or watching Black Sabbath in Hyde Park with Sharon Osbourne. The beauty of Vivienne Westwood's diary is that it is so fresh and unpredictable. In book form, generously illustrated with her own selection of images, it is irresistible. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: The Sex Pistols - 1977 The Sex Pistols, 2018-09-04 '...short, sharp, to the point, minimal. 'Never Mind the Bollocks' is a blackmail note - and we got you all to pay up!' - JOHN LYDON 'When we first went in Wessex [recording studios] we went in through this side door. Freddie Mercury was there doing a vocal take and we walked right through with our guitars. He threw a wobbler.' - STEVE JONES 'God Save The Queen' was definitely the pinnacle. It all went sour after that.' - PAUL COOK 'Malcolm was a s***-stirrer. I think he's got a short attention span. He played this game of pitching me against John. Now we realise there was a lot of false information going between us.' - GLEN MATLOCK On the 40th anniversary of the release of 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols', The Sex Pistols - 1977: The Bollocks Diaries is the official, inside story of the whirlwind year of 1977- the recording and release of 'Never Mind the Bollocks...' and the year the Sex Pistols changed everything. From 'God Save the Queen' to 'Holidays in the Sun' and everything in between, it was a year of chaos and creation. Straight from the mouths of the Sex Pistols and their collaborators, with first-hand stories of secret gigs, recording sessions, fights, record label meltdowns and a media storm like nothing ever seen before, The Sex Pistols - 1977: The Bollocks Diaries is the inside line, told by the people who were there. Packed with photography and rare items from the Sex Pistols archives - from gig posters and early album art to master tapes |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: The Mailbox in the Forest Kyoko Hara, 2021-09 First published in Japan in 2007 by SOENSHA Publishing Co., Ltd. Renewal edition published in 2019 by POPLAR Publishing Co., Ltd. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Schiaparelli & Prada Andrew Bolton, Harold Koda, 2012 The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Inspired by Miguel Covarrubias's Impossible Interviews for Vanity Fair in the 1930s, the exhibition features orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to suggest new readings of their most innovative work. Iconic ensembles will be presented with videos of simulated conversations between Schiaparelli and Prada directed by Baz Luhrmann, focusing on how both women explore similar themes in their work through very different approaches.--MMA website. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: A Year On Earth With Mr. Hell Young Kim, 2024-02-11 A controversial but highly acclaimed memoir by writer Young Kim, A Year on Earth with Mr. Hell, traces her intense relationship with pioneering punk rocker Richard Hell. An erotic account that retains sensitivity and taste, Kim's book has been celebrated by luminaries including Bret Easton Ellis, Nick Hornby and Edmund White and has received plaudits in GQ and The Times. Noted journalist Matthew D'Ancona likened the text to the work of Nin and Bataille. Set in a Warholian swirl in the worlds of art, music, and fashion, spanning continents, the narrative is as much about Kim’s processing her grief for Malcolm McLaren (most famous for his role as the conceptualizer, art director, and manager of the Sex Pistols, as well as designing the punk style with his then-partner Vivienne Westwood), her romantic and business partner for the last 12 years of his life until his untimely death in 2010. Though written as it happened like a diary, in its cinematic sweep, it reads like a novel. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. Viv Albertine, 2014-11-25 A feminist musician icon, Viv Albertine reveals the rocking, uncompromising story of her life on the front lines at the birth of the British punk movement and beyond in this exciting, humorous, and inspiring memoir. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years Viv Albertine is a pioneer. As lead guitarist and songwriter for the seminal band The Slits, she influenced a future generation of artists including Kurt Cobain and Carrie Brownstein. She formed a band with Sid Vicious and was there the night he met Nancy Spungeon. She tempted Johnny Thunders...toured America with the Clash...dated Mick Jones...and inspired the classic Clash anthem “Train in Vain.” But Albertine was no mere muse. In Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., Albertine delivers a unique and unfiltered look at a traditionally male-dominated scene. Her story is so much more than a music memoir. Albertine’s narrative is nothing less than a fierce correspondence from a life on the fringes of culture. The author recalls rebelling from conformity and patriarchal society ever since her days as an adolescent girl in the same London suburb of Muswell Hill where the Kinks formed. With brash honesty—and an unforgiving memory—Albertine writes of immersing herself into punk culture among the likes of the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks. Of her devastation when the Slits broke up and her reinvention as a director and screenwriter. Or abortion, marriage, motherhood, and surviving cancer. Navigating infidelity and negotiating divorce. And launching her comeback as a solo artist with her debut album, The Vermilion Border. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. is a raw chronicle of music, fashion, love, sex, feminism, and more that connects the early days of punk to the Riot Grrl movement and beyond. But even more profoundly, Viv Albertine’s remarkable memoir is the story of an empowered woman staying true to herself and making it on her own in the modern world. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Vivienne Westwood: An Unfashionable Life Jane Mulvagh, 2013-02-14 The acclaimed biography of one of England’s great eccentrics and leading fashion designers. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Vivienne Westwood María Isabel Sánchez Vegara, 2019 Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, Vivienne Westwood tells the inspiring story of this flame-haired fashion designer and businesswoman. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Sid Vicious Alan Parker, Malcolm McLaren, 2008 Music. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Vogue on Vivienne Westwood Linda Watson, 2018-09-18 A provocateur, radical thinker, and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless passion for tradition. From the mini crini, the liberty corset, and the rocking-horse shoe to the stunning, sumptuous wedding dress worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in Sex and the City and Dita Von Teese's infamous purple wedding dress, Westwood has unleashed her imagination on the world for almost 40 years. Her Pirate and Edwardian looks were worldwide fashion trends, and her revolutionary designs include the co-creation of the punk style, the introduction of street style into high fashion, the reworking of the crinoline, the restyling of Harris tweed, and the reintroduction of platforms and the hourglass figure. She has been described by Anna Wintour as 'an unbelievable influence' and by Alexander McQueen as 'the Coco Chanel of our day'. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: No Future Paul Stolper, Andrew Wilson, 2004 |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Leaving the 20th Century Christopher Gray, 2014-09-09 The first Situationist text to be published in the UK in 1974, ‘Leaving the 20th Century’ was Chris Gray and the English situationists’ attempt to capture and distil the vibrant anti-art, anti-capitalist energy of the original International Situationist texts (1957-74). With its loose translations and irreverent commentary, Gray and co. attempted to capture the “terrorism, wit and general megalomania” of the original publications, whilst faithfully reprinting the “photographs of girls, soldiers, bombings, comic-strip frames, maps of cities and diagrams of labyrinths, cathedrals and gardens.” From the art/anti-art beginnings, to the role of the Situationists in the worker-student insurrection of May 68’, ‘Leaving the 20th Century’ remains the definitive English pro-situ text. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Punk London 1977 , 2016 It was an incredible year; probably the last time a youth subculture would grow to have such a huge, worldwide effect. And it all started with a few kids in The Roxy, a scruffy, one-time gay bar in London's Covent Garden. I was lucky enough to be there to capture it. But it wasn't always easy. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Art in the Streets Jeffrey Deitch, Roger Gastman, Aaron Rose, 2011 A catalog of an exhibition that surveys the history of international graffiti and street art. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Please Kill Me Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain, 2006 Now in paperback, this first oral history of the most nihilistic of all pop movements brings the sound of the punk generation chillingly to life with 50 new pages of depraved testimony. Please Kill Me reads like a fast-paced novel, but the tragedies it contains are all too human and all too real. photos. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Fashion Manifesto Sofia Hedström, 2013-04-20 Fashion Manifesto will forever change your relationship to clothes and fashion. Refuse to be a fashion slave and start thinking creatively about your own outfit! Renew your wardrobe and your style, but without having to shop! Master the seven essential fashion rules for streamlining your closet and explore over fifty different ways to reinvent garments. Equal parts memoir, manifesto, and how-to, this book chronicles the experiences of Sofia Hedström, as she subjected her overweight wardrobe to a detox and stopped clothes-shopping for one year. Her mission was to become fashion fit, and together with well-known photographer Anna Schori, she found a thriving frugal fashion movement and discovered the secrets of both young fashionistas and expert masters of style from around the world. Hedström proves that we can all be “style smart”! |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: And Bloom The Art of Aging Unapologetically Denise Boomkens, 2021-09-02 *** 'Are you aging fabulously? Here's how.' Anna Murphy, The Times 'A lovely book celebrating female beauty over 40.' Top Sante 'You become what you see. What you see determines what you believe - and the most powerful way of inspiring people is with images. My goal with AndBloom is to motivate women to embrace life without fear. To provide examples of women between the age of 40 and, currently, 100, so that any woman can open this book and see themselves recognized.' Denise Boomkens launched the AndBloom project on Instagram in 2018, to create a 'happy place for women over 40' - a community where women can be themselves and where aging is celebrated instead of feared. In this, her first book, she shares her own experiences of aging and brings together portraits and interviews with more than 100 extraordinary 'ordinary' women to create both a gloriously illustrated celebration of female beauty over 40 and an empowering handbook to aging happily. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Nautical Chic Amber Jane Buchart, 2015-05-19 First published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by Thames and Hudson Ltd, London--Title page verso. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Eyes for Blowing Up Bridges John Hansard Gallery, 2015-11-30 From Situationism to Beat to Punk, Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges unites a group of remarkable radical artists, poets, writers and activists who initiated, perpetrated and influenced a range of seminal post-war alternative movements.Presenting rarely exhibited material - including cut-ups, film, video, sound and slide, as well as self-published books, pamphlets, anarchist propaganda, punk ephemera and graphics - the exhibition and publication examine the creative interplay between William Burroughs, Guy Debord, Asger Jorn, Alexander Trocchi and King Mob, and their collective influence on Malcolm McLaren in his endeavours to disrupt the cultural and social status quo from the 1960s to his premature death in 2010.McLaren co-opted the intellectual vigour of this powerful and difficult group of individuals to make insurrectionary statements during his days as a Situationist art student in the 1960s, to the end of his life in groundbreaking artistic forays expressed through pop culture (fashion, music, environment, performance, film).Published on the occasion of the exhibition at John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, 26 September - 14 November 2015. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: The Look Paul Gorman, 2006 Definitive account of the growth of one of the biggest businesses in global entertainment - music fashion. From Los Angeles and Memphis to London, Paris and Tokyo, Gorman traces the evolution of the rock 'n' roll fashionista through a wealth of interviews with stars, designers and tailors. The creators of the looks of Elvis, the Beatles, the Sex Pistols, Madonna and the Stones are all here - as are contributions from Boy George, Stella Mccartney, Katherine Hamnett and Paul Smith. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Punk Shirts Bryan Ray Turcotte, 2019-07 Hundreds of examples from the author's personal collection of well-worn vintage punk shirts line the pages of bestselling author Bryan Ray's latest book. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces including internationally famous t-shirts such as Sid Vicious' personal Sex Pistols shirt, Joe Strummer's, 'Rude Boy', hand painted red brigade Tee and Darby Crash's personal Vivian Westwood 'Boobs' seditionaries T-Shirt. Turcotte's collection also features gems such as a hand drawn Ric Clayton (RxCx) Suicidal Tendencies button-up featured on the back of the band's first LP, dozens of Malcolm McLaren / Vivienne Westwood creations and loads of very rare band tees including Misfits, The Cramps, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Screamers, Germs, Mentors and more. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Vivienne Westwood Claire Wilcox, 2005-10-01 Vivienne Westwood is a global icon whose career has successfully spanned three decades, from the early days of punk to the coming-of-age of her own fashion-house. Published to accompany a major V & A exhibition - the first ever Vivienne Westwood retrospective - this book is also the first full-length study of her work as a groundbreaking fashion designer.--BOOK JACKET. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Fashion in Art Marie Simon, 2003-05-02 Between 1850 and 1900 fashion in Paris became an art form in itself, its designers inspired to creations of ever greater elegance and exoticism by the examples of the Old Masters and the popular painters of the day. But as art inspired fashion, so fashion served as a muse for art: painters from Courbet to Whistler, from Manet to Vuillard borrowed the poses of their models from the fashion plates of the day, and embraced the intimate scene - a walk in the garden, a visit from a friend - so typical of the genre. The dialogue between fashion and art is illustrated here by some 120 paintings - works by Ingres, Tissot, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Seurat and Degas among them - and a clutch of hitherto unpublished photographs from the recently discovered archive of Disderi. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: FASHION BEAST TPB Alan Moore, 2013-09-03 Alan Moore, the best-selling graphic novelist of all time, delivers an original dystopian fairy tale set against the backdrop of nuclear winter. Alan Moore’s 1985 time-lost screenplay written with Malcolm McLaren (Sex Pistols) is finally brought to life as a graphic novel. Doll was unfulfilled in her life as a coat checker of a trendy club. But when she is fired from the job and auditions to become a “mannequin” for a reclusive designer, the life of glamour she always imagined is opened before her. She soon discovers that the house of Celestine is as dysfunctional as the clothing that define the classes of this dystopian world. And she soon discovers that the genius of the designer is built upon a terrible lie that has influence down to the lowliest citizen. This unique retelling of Beauty and the Beast was written in 1985 alongside Alan Moore’s comics redefining work on Watchmen. Beautifully illustrated by Facundo Perico (Anna Mercury) and meticulously adapted by Antony Johnston (Yuggoth Cultures), this is another entry in the graphic novel masterworks library by Alan Moore. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: YOHJI YAMAMOTO - RENEGADES OF FASHION Charlie O'Brien, Paul G Roberts, 2021-05-28 Yohji Yamamoto is a man who understands the power of endurance. The product of a Japanese culture ravaged by war, the progressive designer has built his 50-some year career on perseverance and a refusal to bend to the will of tradition. From his initial struggles as an emerging designer to his incendiary debut on the world stage, all the way through to the near collapse of his company in the wake of the global financial crisis, Yamamoto has overcome every obstacle in his path - and always on his own terms. Today, his eponymous brand offering both men's and women's clothing remains his most commercially successful venture alongside the popular sub-label Y's and youth line Ground Y to its' principal lines Pour Homme and Costume D'Homme. In 2018 the brand evolved yet again expanding into a line of perfume. His innovation has led to groundbreaking collaborations and pop culture moments, working alongside household names of fashion, reinventing icons Like Dr Martins whilst dressing icons of entertainment from Tina Turner to Elton John. Most particularly his trailblazing Y-3 range with street-sports giant Adidas, spurned a new wave of cross-genre collaborations paving the way for the now billion dollar athleisure industry. Raised by his mother, who worked as a dressmaker. Yamamoto found himself identifying more with the women of his life. His compassion for the opposite gender would eventually present itself through the construction of his couture. His collections are built primarily around the comfort and confidence clothing can provide for women, uninterested in presenting them as objects of male desire. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Black in Fashion Valerie D. Mendes, 1999 Black in Fashion by Valerie Mendes provides the answer and is the perfect reading companion for anyone who values their special party dress. It is a pure celebration of this ever-present fashion phenomenon, and the perfect gift that every woman would love to own. From the feather-light pleats of Fortuny early last century to the deconstructed creations of Comme des Gar ons - black has inspired designers all over the world. If you are a fashion connoisseur you will be seduced by the lure of couture names and fascinated by this evolutionary account. Valerie's lively commentary explodes a number of myths and puts key developments into context. It is complimented by absolutely stunning, specially commissioned, photographs and stylish page layouts. Dress it up, dress it down, the little black dress is one fashion essential that will never go away. |
| malcolm mclaren and vivienne westwood: Rotten John Lydon, Keith Zimmerman, 2003-07-31 Much more than just a rock autobiography, this book is an oral history of punk : at once angry, witty, honest, poignant and crackling with energy. Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Chrissie Hynde, Billy Idol, Britain in the late seventies, the Pistol's explosion onto the moribund music scene and their implosion under the pressures of superstardom - all these and more are dissected with Lydon's scalpel-sharp pen, in perhaps the best book ever written about music and youth culture, by one of its notorious figures. - back cover. |
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