Product Description: In 2010 Vivienne Westwood and Lee Jeans launched an online manifesto-installation titled 100 Days of Active Resistance. The website invited people to submit an artwork, slogan or photograph responding to Westwood's conception of “Active Resistance to Propaganda,” in which she argues for culture's capacity to elevate humanity above self-destruction...read more

Product Description: Dame of the British Empire Vivienne Westwood is best known for her provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps her runway shows. Her shoes recently got a hit of mass-market retail power when she did a limited edition collection for a partnership including Nine West, Macy's and Vogue...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to concentrate less on Westwood as a personality than on the extraordinary and intricate clothes which have won her the respect of the international fashion community. It breaks new ground by presenting the views of Londoners who collect, wear and make her garments, as well as by exploring Westwood's genius for tailoring and witty manipulation of traditional fabrics and styles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Between 1850 and 1900 fashion in Paris became an art form in itself, its designers inspired to creations of ever greater elegance and exoticism by the examples of the Old Masters and the popular painters of the day. But as art inspired fashion, so fashion served as a muse for art: painters from Courbet to Whistler, from Manet to Vuillard borrowed the poses of their models from the fashion plates of the day, and embraced the intimate scene - a walk in the garden, a visit from a friend - so typical of the genre...read more