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Scene a hotel roomIn New York, one spring morningIn 2013.I’m staring at a photograph of a young soldier with the word TRUTH emblazoned underneath her tentative smileIn white font and a red box like a Barbara Kruger, pinned to Vivienne Westwood’s “Climate Revolution” DIY top. “It’sIncredible no one knows who thisIs. You don’t know who sheIs?” Vivienne asks meIn her soft Derbyshire lilt. She audibly gasps asI shake my head. “It’s amazing.Amazing.I’m here to try and do something about her.” The photograph,I quickly learn,Is of whistleblower Chelsea Manning.By Vivienne’s side now and for more than 30 years of their colorful shared lives stands her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, the dashing, tender artistic director of their fashion label. We discuss the Amazonian wild rubber dress they’ve designed for me to wear to the Met Gala tonight and Chico Mendes, the wild rubber tapping activist who lost his life fighting to protect the rainforest. Vivienne listensIntently, as always, then shares her observations, gesticulating palms out for emphasis. Vivienne Westwood,Andreas Kronthaler and Lily Cole attend the CostumeInstitute Gala for the PUNK: Chaos to Couture exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum ofArt on May 6, 2013.Larry Busacca/GettyImages
Later, Andreas calls from the doorway, “I’m going downstairs, Vivienne.” “You have to wait for me a minute,” she bats back, with a cheeky smile. She’s mid spiel, relaying with unstoppable passion Manning’s plight, her sea colored eyes afire under the red waves she’s drawn over them. Her gaze pierces with a desperate appeal to truth. She’s been calling truths out to us all for decades. WhichIs why, thisApril 2013 day, Vivienne has traveled to New York, accepting Vogue’sInvitation to attend the punk themed Met Gala despite the paradoxesImplied. She andAndreas are here to bring messages to the widest possible audience. “We’re out for the cause!”Andreas urges me, playfully enacting howI'might talk to the cameras about the rainforest.
Hours later, we’re on the red carpet for the Met Gala. Passing a swarm of lenses, Vivienne pivots everyInterviewer’s question to her accessory: “I’ve got some brilliant jewelry here,” she says to CNN, pointing to the soldier’s photo now pinned to her long pink silk coat. “I’m here to support Manning. That’s the mostImportant thingI want to say.”It’s the only thing she says. Fashion was always a vehicle for expression for Vivienne, who diedIn December 2022, age 81. What beganIn the 1970s with spiked hair, “rubberwear for the office,” and T shirt slogans so provocative that she and her partner, Malcolm McLaren, were prosecuted under the 1959 Obscene PublicationsAct later morphed with further humor, zest, and creativity. She wore silk dresses that parodied the upper classes, cosplaying as Margaret Thatcher for the cover of TatlerIn 1989; spread her 70 year old naked body resplendent on a silk sofa like Manet’s Olympia for Juergen Teller; spun for the cameras
when picking up her OBE while “glamorously” wearing no underwear; andIn 2020 dressed as a yellow canary hangingIn a cage outside Downing Street to protest JulianAssange’s extradition to the US. “Vivienne started off a punk and ended as a dame, without compromising anInch,” said Helena Bonham Carter at her memorial today.
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