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Hypnos and Clint Eastwood
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By 1984 Westwood had moved to Italy with her new business partner and present managing director, Carlo D’Amario. The Hypnos collection featured sleek garments made out of synthetic sports fabric in fluorescent pinks and greens. They were fastened with rubber phallus buttons. The collection was shown in Tokyo at Hanae Mori’s Best of Five global fashion awards, along with work by Calvin Klein, Claude Montana and Gianfranco Ferre.
This was soon followed by Clint Eastwood, a collection that hankered after the wide open spaces seen in Western films. Sometimes, she said, you need to transport your ideas to a world that doesn’t exist and then populate it with fantastic looking people. It included garments smothered in Italian company logos and Day-Glo patches inspired by Tokyo’s neon signs.
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Snake body
Clint Eastwood, A/W 1984
Transfer-printed synthetic
V&A: T.239-1991
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