Vivienne Westwood

Original show announcements, invitations, and printed matter issued for Vivienne Westwood’s runway collections and presentations. Items here document the printed infrastructure surrounding Westwood’s practice — press cards, show announcements, and ephemera that circulated through fashion editors, journalists, and industry networks before entering archives and collections. Each piece preserves both the graphic identity of a collection and its institutional afterlife.

  • Postcard recto, Tim Hailand, Recent Works, Coloredge, New York, 2002. Colour photograph by Tim Hailand — Vivienne Westwood, Milan, January 2002. Profile view; woman in dark plaid coat and large ornate earring; voluminous backlit orange-blonde hair against urban street background; parked vehicles and Georgian-style building behind. Good vintage condition, light surface marking. Postcard verso, Tim Hailand, Recent Works, Coloredge, New York, 2002. White ground. Orange and black sans-serif text: 'coloredge / is pleased to announce an ongoing window and lobby project showcasing photographers and artists we work with.' / 'TIM HAILAND / RECENT WORKS / November 11 – December 11, 2002 / 38 W 21st Street, NYC 10010 / tel: 212-633-6000'. Caption lower left: 'Vivienne Westwood (Milan, January 2002) / photo © 2002: Tim Hailand / www.timhailand.com'. Address panel right with stamp box. Unpost

    TIM HAILAND — Recent Works / Vivienne Westwood, Coloredge, New York, 2002

    TIM HAILAND — Recent Works / Vivienne Westwood, Coloredge, New York, 2002

  • Vivienne Westwood MAN Autumn/Winter 2000–2001 show announcement, front, white card: Vivienne Westwood orb logo and script at top; MAN in large distressed letterpress-style type; AUTUMN/WINTER 2000/2001 in spaced caps; below a collage of dictionary page spreads with entries for mammy and man, overlaid with enlarged text fragments and three engraved portrait heads labelled BOWN MAN, HEIDELBERG MAN, CRO-MAGNON, 10. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Vivienne Westwood MAN Autumn/Winter 2000–2001 show announcement, reverse, white card with a faint offset ink transfer of the front image visible through the paper; at upper left a typed press contact label reading FOR PRESS INQUIRIES CONTACT: / MARK PALMEN / VIVIENNE WESTWOOD USA / 71 GREENE STREET–NYC 10012 / T: 212-334-1500 X131 F: 334-1151.

    Vivienne Westwood MAN — Autumn/Winter 2000–2001 Show Announcement

    Vivienne Westwood MAN — Autumn/Winter 2000–2001 Show Announcement