Shalom. Eva. Yasmeen. Naomi. Kate. Mononyms of the supermodels had been forged within the elegant, spindly handwriting of Vivienne Westwood, the operating order of her Vive La Bagatelle spring summer season 1997 present printed on a feather-light shirt. For fall 2026, the Vivienne Westwood staff journeyed via the late Dame’s most formidable collections, creating an era-hopping tableau for a up to date forged of characters.
It started with the bricolage of her Anglophilia and Five Centuries Ago collections: Tarted up tartans appeared on taffeta robes, sharp-waisted jackets, and coquettish twin units. Checked looking breeches had been cinched with studded belts impressed by fairground staff who would adorn their very own with their girlfriends’ names.
Next got here the sensual female codes of mid-’90s Westwood: Georgian bow-adorned bustiers, a gauzy polka-dot costume, a heart-shaped cummerbund, a sporty mini-dress-cum-jacket that includes renaissance cherubs. One deep Peter Pan-collared skirt swimsuit was impressed by the enigmatic, working woman protagonist of Édouard Manet’s final main work, the 1882 portray A Bar on the Folies-Bergère. It was an actual ragtag Canterburian crew, its cobbled-togetherness stored mild and free-wheeling.
Accessories are the place the punk spirit stayed sturdy, with horny triple-strap heels in cracked leather-based, a “motherfucker” chain, and “drunken” asymmetric-laced, python-print sneakers. Horse whips had been affixed to totes and shoulderbags, and one fuzzy bucket bag riffed on British Yeomen Warders’ hats. A candy, robin-shaped coin purse was the gathering’s ode to the late designer. Denim additionally stored it cheeky, with beat-up jackets and washed and lasered denims that includes a print impressed by papal robes, and fairly fabulous zip-crotched pants. As at all times, there have been nods to sustainability and revolutionary supplies; wool was sourced from heritage tartan producer Lochcarron of Scotland, and jewellery largely integrated recycled brass.
A well-known fetishistic undertone was woven via each the lads’s and womenswear, with particulars taken from the current, deliciously deviant Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood present: stockings emerged from flasher-style trenches, and an in any other case business-y pantsuit is slashed to the hip.
The staff shared in a preview that clients proceed to come back to the model on the lookout for the Westwoodian tackle up to date tailoring, so there have been pants with detachable built-in corsetry and others with a boxer shorts prime layer. Erotica, as you prefer it.
