Vivienne Westwood Catwalk: The Complete Collections

Vivienne Westwood invented punk fashion in the 1970s and then, refusing to be defined by it, spent the next four decades producing some of the most intellectually rigorous and most technically accomplished fashion in the history of the industry. Her collections have been simultaneously political statements, art historical investigations, and demonstrations of tailoring at its most ambitious — corsets, bustles, and historical silhouettes treated as living forms rather than museum pieces.

This complete catwalk record documents every Westwood collection in the kind of detail the work deserves — runway photography, construction details, and commentary that situates each collection in the development of an extraordinary career. An essential document of fashion as political and artistic practice.

Published by Thames & Hudson.