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Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
IDFA 2018

Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist

Lorna Tucker
United Kingdom
2018
78 min
Dutch Premiere
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Dame Vivienne Westwood runs her hands along the various pieces in her new collection. She’s clearly disgruntled—whose idea was that tiny collar? Surely not hers! At 77, she’s as flamboyant, brilliant and strong-willed as ever. And she’s one of the few top designers who still heads her own fashion house. With a sense of drama and understatement, she complains that it’s so dull to dredge up her past. And then, through her voice-over and an astonishing quantity of film footage, this documentary leads us through a life that has been spectacular in every respect.

She could already design shoes at five, and by 11 she was making her own clothes. Together with her ex-boyfriend Malcolm McLaren, she was an originator of British punk in the 1970s. McLaren brought the Sex Pistols together, and she dressed them. Although Westwood has become part of the establishment she once detested, as a climate activist she now fights for sustainability in the fashion industry.

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Director
Production
    Eleanor Emptage,
    Shirine Best for Finished Films,
    Nicole Stott for Passion Pictures,
    John Battsek for Passion Pictures
    Eleanor Emptage,
    Shirine Best for Finished Films,
    Nicole Stott for Passion Pictures,
    John Battsek for Passion Pictures
Executive producer
    Anna Godas for Dogwoof Ltd,
    Leo Haidar
    Anna Godas for Dogwoof Ltd,
    Leo Haidar
World Sales
    Dogwoof Ltd
    Dogwoof Ltd
Screening copy
    Dogwoof Ltd
    Dogwoof Ltd

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