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The E-BNR aims to build a comprehensive & unique cross-artform guide to
the British neo-Romantic tradition,
from 1880 to the present day.
While the British Romantics of 1789-1824 have spawned a vast industry of
publishers, conferences & tourism, the later neo-Romantic traditions
remain largely neglected. The E-BNR is aimed at bringing this hidden
tradition to light.
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WHAT IS NEO-ROMANTICISM ?
Neo-Romantic artists have drawn their inspiration
from artists of the age of Romanticism or earlier.
Characteristic themes in their work include a
mystical approach to the British landscape...
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ENTRY: Westwood, Vivienne
Dame Vivienne Westwood D.B.E. (born Vivienne Isabel Swire in
Tintwistle, Cheshire, on 8 April 1941) is an English fashion designer.
Westwood studied at the Harrow School of Art, and she and Malcolm McLaren
opened a shop called Let It Rock (also known as Sex, Too Fast To Live Too Young Too Die,
and Seditionaries) where Westwood began to sell her provocative punk designs.
Westwood still owns the shop, which is at 430 King's Road, and sells
her Anglomania label from there. The shop is now known as World's End.
The punk style began to gain notoriety when the Sex Pistols wore clothes from
Westwood and McLaren's shop, as McLaren managed the band. Together, Westwood and
McLaren revolutionised fashion, and the impact is still felt today.
After the punk scene had burned out, the New Romantics became the forefront of fashion
and music, and Westwood's first runway fashion show were the romantic "Pirate" collection
and "New Romanticism Look" collection in London, in March 1981. Her design style
had evolved and tradition and technique now came to the fore. Westwood worked historical
factors into her collection by using historical 17th-18th century original cutting
principles but she also updated these. Her design is quintessentially English in its nostalgia
and respect for the past.
Her first major retrospective of her work was shown in 2004-2005 at the
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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