The non-public wardrobe of the late trend icon, Vivienne Westwood, will go beneath the hammer at Christie’s this summer time, that includes clothes impressed by artists similar to Keith Haring. The sale is led by Westwood’s husband and design associate, 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 many years. The heaps on sale will go on view for members 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 partially by witchcraft and Keith Haring’s graphic code of magic symbols,” a Christie’s assertion says. Writing within the Monetary Occasions, Alexander Fury says: “Establishments worldwide will likely be combating over objects from landmark collections similar to Harris Tweed (autumn/winter 1987), during which Westwood reintroduced the corset, and On Liberty (autumn/winter 1994), during which she reinvented the bustle.”
As a part of a posthumously-launched undertaking 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 Huge 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 creative inspirations: “[She] spun Kolman Helmschmid’s early Sixteenth-century go well with 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 marvel 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 marvel that her classic items price hundreds of kilos.”
