Ensemble

Designer Vivienne Westwood British
 Designer Malcolm McLaren British

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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.

Ensemble, Vivienne Westwood (British, 1941–2022), (a) cotton; (b) cotton; (c) cotton, leather, metal, (d, e) leather, metal, British

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Ensemble, Vivienne Westwood (British, 1941–2022), (a) cotton; (b) cotton; (c) cotton, leather, metal, (d, e) leather, metal, British
Ensemble, Vivienne Westwood (British, 1941–2022), (a) cotton; (b) cotton; (c) cotton, leather, metal, (d, e) leather, metal, British

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