- Title: Vivienne Westwood's SS/07 collection hails goddess Europa as muse
- Date: 1st October 2016
- Summary: WESTWOOD AND KRONTHALER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) VIVIENNE WESTWOOD LABEL CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ANDREAS KRONTHALER, SAYING: "You know, it was about the south, and you know, there is Matisse which is my favourite artist. There's nobody who can capture the south and style more, you know, he lived in the south of France, the colours and everything. And there are these cutouts and this, actually - Vivienne is wearing this dress, this famous blue cutout, yeah? And it's just stitched together with this bend in order to give it a three-dimensional...To get a rapport with the body. But this piece here is the frame of it. So you're not throwing anything away." KRONTHALER AND WESTWOOD SPEAKING (SOUNDBITE) (English) FASHION DESIGNER, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, SAYING: "I didn't do very much at all but one of the things that I'm really...What I've contributed..." (SOUNDBITE) (English) VIVIENNE WESTWOOD LABEL CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ANDREAS KRONTHALER, SAYING: "You've helped me a lot in everything." (SOUNDBITE) (English) FASHION DESIGNER, VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, SAYING: "Wait a minute, I'll just tell you, then you can talk. Which is that I'm really good at cutting principles, and what that means is that all the cleverness is done in the cutting principle, you can make it by mass manufacturing and it looks couture. And that's what Andreas did, he took his own cutting principle this time and this is the result of it." WESTWOOD AND KRONTHALER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) VIVIENNE WESTWOOD LABEL CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ANDREAS KRONTHALER, SAYING: "You know, I used to be the assistant of Vivienne and now Vivienne is the assistant of me. [I] kind of describe it in that way, because she's, you know, designing a lot of her line and she's helping me and all these things but she's a great campaigner, she's a big campaigner and it's taking a lot of her time and energy. Plus, you know, there is a certain...I don't want her to work like a donkey any more. I just think...I mean, at one point...Anyway, don't say it to her because, you know, she always says the opposite anyway. You say, 'Let's do that' and she does that, you know." KRONTHALER BEING INTERVIEWED (SOUNDBITE) (English) VIVIENNE WESTWOOD LABEL CREATIVE DIRECTOR, ANDREAS KRONTHALER, SAYING: "About fashion, certainly, I learnt everything from women. From maybe Vivienne the most all the time and still, but I thought that's kind of a good thing for me to say and I think women in general should have much more say and much more importance. Not only in the western world, everywhere, you know? The world would look different. Women are not holy, I'm not saying [that], you know..." KRONTHALER BEING INTERVIEWED
- Embargoed: 16th October 2016 19:13
- Keywords: Fashion week Paris Vivienne Westwood SS17 Andreas Kronthaler
- Location: PARIS, FRANCE
- City: PARIS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Arts/Culture/Entertainment,Fashion
- Reuters ID: LVA0025269BH5
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Vivienne Westwood's Spring/Summer 2017 women's ready-to-wear collection hit the Paris catwalk on Saturday (October 1) in an array of straw-like confections and gender-bending, Mediterranean-inspired unisex pieces.
The collection saw creative director Andreas Kronthaler -- Westwood's husband -- firmly stepping out of his wife's shadow while hailing the influence women have had on his work.
One woman Kronthaler cited in the collection was "the goddess who gave her name to our continent: Europa." Kronthaler said in a statement that: "I see England as part of Europe, so does Vivienne," and that British unisex tailoring had had a particular influence on the show.
But the art and lifestyle of southern Europe was the key theme celebrated in the pieces, resonating with echoes of Van Gogh's southern French haystacks and -- for Kronthaler especially -- with Matisse's famous cut-out collages.
"There's nobody who can capture the south and style more, you know, he lived in the south of France, the colours and everything. And there are these cut-outs and this, actually - Vivienne is wearing this dress, this famous blue cut-out, yeah? And it's just stitched together with this bend in order to give it a three-dimensional....To get a rapport with the body. But this piece here is the frame of it. So you're not throwing anything away," he said, gesturing at a dress Westwood was wearing.
"You know, I used to be the assistant of Vivienne and now Vivienne is the assistant of me. [I] kind of describe it in that way, because she's, you know, designing a lot of her line and she's helping me and all these things but she's a great campaigner, she's a big campaigner and it's taking a lot of her time and energy. Plus, you know, there is a certain...I don't want her to work like a donkey any more," Kronthaler added.
Westwood and Kronthaler have collaborated for over 25 years and presented their first collection together as 'Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood' in March 2016 under the title 'Sexercise'. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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