The much-awaited collaboration between luxurious homes Vivienne Westwood & Burberry is lastly right here. The gathering takes on punk and heritage, rise up and custom, the previous and the longer term as Westwood returns to her legendary archive and re-envisions it within the iconic Burberry verify.
“Vivienne Westwood was one of many first designers who made me dream to change into a designer myself and once I first began at Burberry, I knew it might be the proper alternative to strategy her to do one thing,” Burberry’s new chief artistic officer, Riccardo Tisci, stated in a press launch. “She is a insurgent, a punk and unequalled in her distinctive illustration of British model, which has impressed so many people. I’m so extremely happy with what we shall be creating collectively.”
Kate Moss seems within the David Sims-shot marketing campaign for the gathering, sporting the outsized collar silk twill shirt.
Except for becoming a member of two of essentially the most storied British trend manufacturers, the collaboration serves one other function: to assist Cool Earth, a UK-based non-profit group that works alongside rainforest communities to halt deforestation and local weather change. The slogan shirt, beneath, reveals assist through a hand-written message from Vivienne Westwood saying, “Cool Earth has a plan to save lots of the rainforest.”
As anticipated, the historic assortment is luxurious priced, with costs starting from $70 to $1,590. You’ll be able to store the objects now on Burberry’s on-line retailer.
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