Tag: Vivienne Westwood

  • Martin Parr – Interview: ‘Britain is eternally fascinating … full of contradictions … Photographing it is a form of therapy’

    Documentary photographer Martin Parr’s latest exhibition, Only Human, at the National Portrait Gallery, is all about us – us humans, but especially us British. Here, he talks about cake, collecting and Britain in the time of Brexit

  • Safety Pin Chic: Punk Invades the Met

    When punk music emerged in the mid 1970s, a vibrant, cheeky subculture grew to amplify the message in art, literature, film, and most visibly fashion. To this day, punk and its many variations make up a large slice of popular…

  • Viva Vivienne

    Vivienne Westwood’s re-entry into the multi-media arena is welcome as much as it is stimulating. Typically, she was quoted as saying, at the Guardian Hay festival ‘In visual art, I don’t believe that anything is happening at the moment.’ Her…

  • London Fashion Week: Sympathy for the Devil

    London Fashion Week coincided very closely with the launch of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’, starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt, and was surrounded in a mist of infamy concerning size zero models – questioning whether Nancy Regan was…