Cut, Slash & Pull
1991 · Dress
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Vivienne Westwood
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86
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Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer whose radical tailoring, corsetry, and strategic use of tartan and subversive graphics engineered provocative silhouettes that fundamentally shaped punk and postpunk aesthetics from the 1970s onward. Working from her London shop and studio, she positioned garment production as conceptual statement on sexuality, class, and political resistance. Her practice redefined the relationship between fashion design and avant-garde practice.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Victoria and Albert Museum
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