The private wardrobe of the late style icon, Vivienne Westwood, will go underneath the hammer at Christie’s this summer season, that includes clothes impressed by artists corresponding to Keith Haring. The sale is led by Westwood’s husband and design accomplice, Andreas Kronthaler A part of the sale proceeds will go in direction of Westwood’s personal charity (The Vivienne Basis), Amnesty Worldwide and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Vivienne Westwood: The Private Assortment shall be offered at two auctions: a dwell sale happening in London on 25 June and a web based public sale (14-28 June). Greater than 200 heaps, together with jewelry and equipment, have been consigned, spanning 4 a long time. The heaps on sale will go on view for member’s of the general public at Christie’s headquarters in London (14-24 June)
“One of many earliest collections by Westwood, Witches, autumn/winter 1983/84, was impressed partly by witchcraft and Keith Haring’s graphic code of magic symbols,” a Christie’s assertion says. Writing within the Monetary Occasions, Alexander Fury says: “Establishments worldwide will likely be preventing over gadgets from landmark collections corresponding to Harris Tweed (autumn/winter 1987), wherein Westwood reintroduced the corset, and On Liberty (autumn/winter 1994), wherein she reinvented the bustle.”
As a part of a posthumously-launched mission by Westwood to boost fund for the environmental charity Greenpeace, the designer created a collection of prints a collection of prints in ten portfolios, primarily based on taking part in playing cards she designed. The primary set of prints, offered in a linen-covered hand-embroidered field, shall be provided at public sale as a part of the dwell sale (The Large Image–Vivienne’s Taking part in Playing cards, est £30,000-£50,000). The proceeds of this sale shall be donated to Greenpeace.
Westwood died December 2022. Within the obituary for The Artwork Newspaper, Jane Mulvagh wrote of Westwood’s inventive inspirations: “[she] spun Kolman Helmschmid’s early Sixteenth-century swimsuit of armour right into a Harris tweed jacket padded with armoured panels, printed Boucher’s putti from Venus and Vulcan (1754) throughout corsets and raincoats, and used Keith Haring’s New York subway graffiti of 1980-81 on cotton streetwear”.
Mulvagh additionally mentioned: “It’s little surprise that crowds snake across the block to see her museum retrospectives, together with the present placed on on the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London, in 2004, earlier than it toured the world. It’s no surprise that her classic items value 1000’s of kilos.”
