Vivienne Westwood designs necklace for legal charity Reprieve

A necklace designed by Vivienne Westwood specially for legal action charity Reprieve has recently launched with all proceeds going to its work for prisoners on death row and in Guantánamo Bay. The necklace currently on sale to the public comes in an oxidised silver finish and there is also a matching clutch pin. The necklace is priced at £105.00 and the pin at £35.00, and both are available from www.viviennewestwood.com. This project aims to raise awareness of Reprieve and the essential funds required to continue it. The profits from each necklace sold will go towards work assisting prisoners denied justice around the world, from death row to Guantánamo Bay.

Vivienne Westwood re-launches website

The world of Vivienne Westwood will soon be re-launched on the 1 of November with a brand new website at www.viviennewestwood.com. Viewing the latest runway shows, learning about the collections and keeping up to date on the brand can now be combined with online shopping. Vivienne Westwood is has introduced e-commerce facilities online where a wide variety of clothing and accessories from Red Label, Anglomania and MAN will now be available to purchase online. Read about the story of Vivienne Westwood with a brand new section dedicated to her history until present day, giving insights into collections and inspirations behind them. For the launch, Vivienne Westwood will also showcase archive video footage from some of her best known collections such as Le Flou Taille, Voyage to Cythera and Anglomania. For the re-launch on 1 November, Vivienne Westwood will offer a special promotion for those purchasing on the night. The first 100 customers to spend over £100.00 will each receive the latest Vivienne Westwood designed, aluminium SIGG bottle valued at £18.00. In addition, all customers purchasing before 7 November will receive free shipping on their purchase.

Vivienne Westwood to launch watch collection

Zeon Limited, a subsidiary of the Herald Group, has announced that it has signed a worldwide licensing agreement with British luxury fashion brand Vivienne Westwood to design, market and distribute a collection of watches under the Vivienne Westwood brand name. The first products will be launched at Baselworld in March 2011. The watch collection will consist of a range of ladies and men’s watches retailing between £100.00 to £500.00 and will be available in stores from Autumn 2011. Vivienne Westwood watches will be offered initially through select, high-end UK department and specialty stores, before moving into similar retail outlets across Europe, the USA and Asia.

Vivienne Westwood and Lee Jeans launch new online art installation

Vivienne Westwood Anglomania and Lee Jeans are launching an online installation entitled ‘100 Days of Active Resistance’. The brands are encouraging communication and individuality through an online installation sharing interpretations of Vivienne Westwood’s Active Resistance. Every day for one hundred days one image will be selected from submissions and shared online on www.ar100days.com. At the close of 100 days, the 100 chosen images will become a part of a London exhibition dedicated to the project. “It is not enough to follow world politics, see films and read the prize-winning best seller. This is superficial, you need to go deep in order to understand who you are, what the world is and how things could be better. This involves culture which can only be acquired by self-education: human beings should mirror the world.” – Vivienne Westwood. Vivienne Westwood will celebrate the launch of the website and its collaboration with Lee at the London W1 stores with an exhibition of Vivienne Westwood denim pieces from past to present on the 8 of September coinciding with Vogue’s Fashion Night Out. For more information on Active Resistance please visit www.ar100days.com

New collaboration between Vivienne Westwood and Mantero Seta

The English design icon Vivienne Westwood and Mantero Seta, the worldwide leader of the silk production, have signed a deal to create a new line of women’s foulards and scarves. The union with Mantero represents Vivienne Westwood’s desire to enhance its women accessories range. The partnership will start from Spring-Summer 2011 and continue for six seasons.