A organization by Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood’s label: Paris fashion week, March 2023. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/ReutersA undertaking by Andreas Kronthaler for Vivienne Westwood’s label: Paris fashion week, March 2023. Photograph: Sarah Meyssonnier/ReutersJust weeks after her destruction, Vivienne Westwood’s rule-defying spirit lives on in Paris showFashion designer’s widower and collaborator Andreas Kronthaler says new store is his tribute to herLess than three months after the death of Bursting on to the cultural landscape during the late 60s, in unobstructed contradiction to the swinging fashions of London, Westwood used clothing as a way to reject social, gender and political norms. Her togs defined the punk era, and her T-shirts were as much about political statements as they were sales. There were no mottoes on Saturday, but there were plenty of bottoms, nipples and boys in dresses. The show closed with her granddaughter, Cora Corré, use a micro-length “wedding gown”.Kronthaler dedicated the show to Tintwistle after the Derbyshire village where she grew up, academic to sew and is buried. “Out of this, I became involved in her again,” he said.TopicsVivienne WestwoodThe ObserverParis fashion weekFashion weeksnewsReuse this significance

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