Fashion

[DSD2]

She looks happy and that's all that matters.

It was she who created the Carrie Bradshaw's (Sarah Jessica Parker's) wedding dress in Sex and the City. It was gorgeous!!

[phoenixbrd]

I adore authenticity....and this dress obviously pleases her.  She owns it...so get it!  Doesn't matter what I like or don't like...she is totally herself so it works for her.

[Iwantcoffee]

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[Harpa]

@Iwantcoffee  What a great statement! (The "Buy less....")

My only excuse is that I have to buy for 4 different seasons.

[Desertdi]

She passed away on 12.29.22

From CNN:

British fashion designer and style icon Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, at her home in London on Thursday, according to an official statement from her eponymous company.

To the media, she was "the high priestess of punk" and the "Queen of Extreme." To the fashion world, she was a beloved character who energized and pushed the boundaries of the industry until her death.

[morganjen]

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/vivienne-westwood-punk-fashion-sex-pistols-cec/index.html

And here I thought the Sex Pistols dressed themselves.

[NYCLatinaMe]

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@Harpa wrote:

Anyone here who favors this style?

I don't know why this caught my eye, but a headline about Vivienne Westwood (dec'd), who created the punk look.

Some good tidbits in the article to talk about in my American Pop Music course.

She was a lifelong rebel who was honored several times by Queen Elizabeth II. She dressed like a teenager even in her 60s

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That's a lovely picture of Vivienne Westwood, a very influential designer, beginning with punk (and dressing the Sex Pistols), but that picture is not her punk style.  It's just a gingham dress from 2012.  Thought I would add some of her punk style...  

 

This brought back memories of NYC in the early 1980s when I moved here.  Punk fashion was commonplace, I was of the right age (a teenager, early 20s), and I wore some of the punk styles at times.

The best place to shop was St. Mark's Place in the East Village, which included, among other shops, Trash and Vaudeville (which dressed the Ramones and Debbie Harry), and Manic Panic.

Broadway and Eighth Street in the Greenwich Village were also good places to shop.  I could have sworn there was a store on Eighth Street with Vivienne Westwood fashions, a more upscale shop, but I found no evidence online, so maybe I magined it?????

Anyway, here are some of the punk fashions we saw in NYC streets then

And of course I thought I need to include a picture of the Ramones

[NYCLatinaMe]

Ugh, I finally remembered the name of the store I referred to in my above post, that I was beginning to think I imagined, that sold "upscale" punk clothes on Eighth Street in the Village, in NYC.  It was a Patricia Field store.

It closed 20 years ago, because New York University kicked her out.  They are killing our neighborhoods, turning them into a University Campus.  It is one of the most expensive schools in the country (it is private), and they didn't have a campus so they took over the Village and are coming up third avenue, and G_ knows how much more they'll take.  Neighborhoods forever changed.

Patricia Field was the stylist for Sex and the City and the Devil Wears Prada, and. am sure, many other things.