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Vivienne Westwood and the V&A
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The historical costume collection at the V&A has been an inspiration to Westwood, but despite their exactitude, Westwood’s creations are never historical facsimilies: I take something from the past that has sort of vitality that has never been exploited - like the crinoline - and get very intense. In the end you do something original because you overlay your own ideas.
Essentially, Westwood says, when you analyse where the glamour is in clothes, the romance, it is, I believe, in something that people have seen before. It’s like perfume. You think, ‘I know that smell. reminding me of something else as well’.
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