Together over the last 30 years, we have created iconic products that are recognised globally as a sign of durable quality and style. We respect the Human Rights of the people who make our brand what it is today; our supply chain workers, our heritage partners, our employees, our customers and our wider public.
We are committed to working with partners that share our values and aim to be accountable for the labour conditions under which our products are manufactured, to companies we do business with, to consumers, and in general to the society that we are part of. We have adopted a Code of Labour Practice and Modern Slavery Policy; within which we are very clear on the standards that we hold ourselves and our suppliers to.
Our Modern Slavery Statement sets out steps we are taking to ensure slavery and human trafficking is not taking place in our supply chain and our own business.
We are a member of Sedex, a collaborative platform for sharing responsible sourcing data on supply chains. We are committed to always enhancing our efforts in sourcing raw materials with minimal social and environmental impact.
We embrace opportunities to use sustainable fibres and fabrics, low impact dyeing and processing and work with our suppliers to improve our performance with every collection.
Highlights include:. HEMP: We have increased the use of fabrics such as hemp, which naturally reduce pests, controls erosion of topsoil, produces oxygen and uses less water in cultivation. PLASTIC: We are eliminating all single-use plastic from transit packaging and use shredded card made from used boxes for protective inner packaging. We are working to change our plastic hangers and polythene garment covers to more sustainable alternatives.
TANNING: We are increasing the use of leather that is processed using environmentally friendly dyeing and tanning techniques; chrome-free and vegetable tanned. VISCOSE: We are part of the Canopy Style initiative ensuring no fabrics made from dissolving wood pulp are sourced from ancient and endangered forest areas and have committed to only using FSC certified viscose by We are committed to tackling textile waste through our collections and aim to make the most of the resources that go into our products, reusing, recycling and reimagining as we go.
This is an on-going process that we aim to complete by Our Made in Africa accessories are created using recycled canvas, reused roadside banners, unused leather off-cuts, and recycled brass cast, Dhow sails are upcycled into our Africa Bags and excess shirting stock is reused for linings. In , we partnered with Italian social enterprise Project Quid, who provide employment for vulnerable women, to create a limited-edition accessories collection from leftover silk stock.
Vivienne's voice gives strength to our brand, allowing us to share our values, campaign to protect life on Mother Earth, Gaia and mobilise people around Climate Change and Human Rights. Vivienne is an ardent supporter of Cool Earth andtheir efforts to save the rainforest and stop Climate Change. In , she along with Greenpeace, launched a global campaign to stop drilling and industrial fishing in the area. Over the last 20 years Vivienne has campaigned and fundraised for the Environmental Justice Foundation, Friends of the Earth, Amnesty International and War Child, amongst many other grassroots charities and campaigns.
We have dedicated a number of shows and products to raise money and awareness around these causes. She later partnered with Sex Pistols manager Malcolm Mclaren and had another son with him. In , ten years after Westwood and Mclaren split, Westwood married for a second time, to her assistant, Andreas Kronthaler, who is 25 years her junior. Today, Kronthaler is her design partner. The couple resides in South London. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. London designer Mary Quant is immortalized by fashion iconography as the originator of the miniskirt. Alexander McQueen was a London-based, English fashion designer who was head designer of the Louis Vuitton Givenchy fashion line, before starting his own line. Jane Goodall is known for her years of living among chimpanzees in Tanzania to create one of the most trailblazing studies of primates in modern times.
Designer Marc Jacobs is powerhouse in the fashion world fueled by the success of his own eponymous label. John Galliano is a British fashion designer who has served as head designer of the French haute couture houses Givenchy and Christian Dior Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood helped set the style for modern punk and New Wave music.
Olivia Rodrigo —. First fashionable in the s, this highly structured outfit, consisting of a belted jacket and matching knee breeches, was designed to be worn while shooting.
She also created less extreme historical reinterpretations, with incongruous mixes of tailored elements, such as — for a men's ensemble of — a traditionally cut Harris Tweed slimline jacket subverted by baggy trousers and a waistcoat with an exaggerated shawl collar. In , the dramatic silk-and-taffeta evening gowns of Les Femmes ne Connaissent pas toute leur Coquetterie made sly modern adjustments to an 18th-century silhouette. Inspired by the work of French Rococo painter Antoine Watteau, Westwood took the 'sack back' dress and injected it with a thoroughly modern asymmetry, adding a single off-shoulder cut and polonaise pouf a swagged overskirt inspired by Polish national costume.
Throughout the s, Westwood used new technologies to borrow images from history in a more immediate way, printing facsimiles of favourite paintings directly onto her designs. She filtered the original dress through the lens of her trademark asymmetry and eccentric swagger, creating an innovative curved-seam design that still makes looking backwards seem incredibly forward-thinking.
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