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Designer Vivienne Westwood British
Designer Malcolm McLaren British
Not on view
Vivienne Westwood's Punkature collection for spring/summer 1983 (a combination of "punk" and "couture") blends various motives of the everyday into a garment with a signature Westwood stamp. In a time of nuclear unrest, she experimented with ideas of being thrown back into a primordial age, or what one's wardrobe would look like after nuclear war: the result is a mix of dystopian colors (shades of orange and black) with domestic accents in a "dishcloth jacket." She assumed an anarchic, autodidact position in order to "start over" and use what was available, so she hand-dyed the canvas and used naïve patterns and loose seams for the jacket and combined it with draped baggy trousers upheld by rustic suspenders.
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