A model presents a Vivienne Westwood creation at the London Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2008-09, Sunday, February 14. Photo Credit: Solarpix / PR Photos16 February 2008 (Sawf News) - Vivienne Westwood exhibited her Red Label collection of ready-to-wear clothing at the London Fashion Week Fall-Winter 2008-09, Sunday, February 14..
For the first time in nine years the 66-year-old British designer presented a show at London Fashion Week by paying homage to young women from the 1970s who shopped in the neighborhood where she first made a name for herself.
"Vivienne Westwood has chosen as her inspiration the girls who in the 1970's flocked to the King's Road to shop, see and be seen," a statement read, describing her Red Label collection of ready-to-wear clothing.
Celebrities who watched the designer’s collection included Jodie and Jemma Kidd, Kelly Osbourne, Kimberley Stewart, Lily Allen, Cuba Gooding Jr, David Walliams and Jefferson Hack.
The Red Label collection will be sold throughout London for an unspecified amount of time.
A former primary school teacher, Westwood changed tracks in the 1970s after dating Malcolm McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, who personified the punk generation sweeping Britain.
From there, her nickname as the "Queen of punk" transformed into "Queen of British fashion" after a 40-year designing career.
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