The non-public wardrobe of the late style icon, Vivienne Westwood, will go below the hammer at Christie’s this summer season, that includes clothes impressed by artists similar to Keith Haring. The sale is led by Westwood’s husband and design companion, 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 will probably be introduced at two auctions: a stay sale going down 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 Instances, Alexander Fury says: “Establishments worldwide will likely be combating over gadgets from landmark collections similar 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 challenge by Westwood to boost fund for the environmental charity Greenpeace, the designer created a sequence of prints a sequence of prints in ten portfolios, based mostly on taking part in playing cards she designed. The primary set of prints, introduced in a linen-covered hand-embroidered field, will probably be supplied at public sale as a part of the stay sale (The Massive Image–Vivienne’s Enjoying Playing cards, est £30,000-£50,000). The proceeds of this sale will probably 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 price 1000’s of kilos.”