Vivienne Westwood Merges Menswear, Womenswear
Eccentric British designer Vivienne Westwood is slated to combine both shows under her mainline label come Fall 2017.
Iconic British designer Vivienne Westwood will soon follow in the footsteps of Gucci, Vetements, Rag & Bone and Public School by combining both her womenās and menās collections under the Vivienne Westwood mainline label come fall 2017.
Westwood ā known for her unorthodox gender-bending approach to fashion ā will merge the āRed Labelā womenswear collection and the āMan Labelā menswear line in a bid to streamline and clarify its branding in the industry. She will also not stage a show for her Spring 2017 womenās collection in September, and will instead showcase it to press and buyers via public appointments and lookbooks. āOur whole structure will be directed by quality. Reduce our company in size, reduce it to its essentials. Buy less, choose well, make it last,ā Westwood said in a release.
This isnāt Westwoodās first attempt at refining her companyās structure. Her main unisex runway collection was renamed āAndreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwoodā from the less inspiring āGold Labelā, in recognition of the partnership between herself and longtime design collaborator and husband.