Dame Vivienne Westwood's first-ever show in Asia dazzled the audience with her idiosyncratic panoply of trinket silk corset dresses, Mao caps, lace wedding gowns and vertiginous platform shoes that could only have sprung from the mind of the Mother of Punk.The runway show on Thursday night at the Shanghai International Fashion Center in northeastern Shanghai's Yangpu District featured striking, somewhat obscure fairytale styles. Models wore white facial makeup and painted features that conveyed an otherworldly aura. Westwood's striking Gold Label and Red Carpet pieces were impeccably crafted and fitted.
After the highly successful and impressive catwalk show,Bridal show seeks vendors to showcase area services, I went back stage and sipped champagne with the flame-haired lady who throughout that day had eaten just one banana.
After having debuted her spring/summer 2012 man collection in Milan, Red Label in London and Gold Label in Paris, Dame Vivienne brought to Shanghai a mix of her four clothing lines, plus the capsule collection Red Carpet by Vivienne Westwood."When doing a fashion show, it's impossible to repeat," the legendary designer told me in an interview as she sipped champagne. "I brought something together from all my lines: a lot of evening dresses with less day wear. We've selected wonderful pieces from my favorite Gold Label and there were a lot of pieces from Red Carpet which I've never shown anywhere else.
"With all the pieces together, we just wanted to show the Vivienne Westwood look," she added.Westwood said the models were attractive in their white "mask" makeup, adding that "you can also imagine my clothes on somebody without makeup."Models also sported Westwood's Mao cap, one of her latest designs from the new Gold Label collection.Her show exhibited influences from around the world and China was an important inspiration. Westwood incorporated Chinese calligraphy characters for her own name in a print taken from Chinese flower painting.
For the past 20 years, Westwood has been an ardent admirer of traditional Chinese ink-wash painting and has given it a great deal of thought. By contrast, in a lot of modern art today there isn't much skill, she said."I think Chinese civilization is the high point of human achievement in the last 4,000 years. To me, there was nothing more wonderful than Chinese painting," she said. "There is no progress in art. Great arts are timeless. The Chinese painting is absolutely perfect and you can't progress from something that is perfect."She spoke philosophically and said she has reflected on Chinese painting. "How did someone ever do that? It was a miracle to me," she said. "It's a view of the world, a representation of life. There is nothing more futuristic than Chinese painting."
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