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Vivienne Westwood

Spatial Construction

Rebellion as form

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Rebellion as form

Vivienne Westwood

FAS–REB–WES

Rebellion as form

Index Code:

FAS–REB–WES

Orgin:

Derbyshire, UK / London, UK

Field Notes:

Clothes become propositions • history becomes raw material

Defining Moment:

1981—Pirate Collection recast anarchic style as a new cultural language.

Vivienne Westwood

(

1941–2022

)

viv-ee-en west-wood

Westwood transformed subculture into structure.

Punk became pedagogy in her hands—corsetry, tartans, and historical fragments reassembled as an architecture of defiance and wit.

Structural Focus

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Vivienne Westwood’s work, this approach appears where construction subverts historical form.

Position

Body as Measure

Human scale, movement, or wear calibrates the work. Proportion is felt physically rather than visually alone.

In Vivienne Westwood’s work, this approach appears where construction subverts historical form.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Body as architecture

Armor as language

In Dialogue

Excess as discipline

Alexander McQueen

Beauty as violence