Vivienne Westwood releases their fall winter 2022-23 campaign titled ‘Wild Beauty,' directed by Jo Fetto. The fall winter 2022 show by Andreas Kronthaler takes inspiration from the archive Vivienne Westwood Winter 2001 collection which shares the same name. 'Wild Beauty' is a feeling that builds from that collection for the modern era in the year of the Tiger.
In Chinese tradition, the tiger is a symbol of strength, courage and exorcising evil. The tiger as a burning image is referenced prowling in the rainforest by artist Henri Rousseau and hangs in the National Gallery in London. "The panther cutting technique - skirts and dresses - has the slow motion energy of the big cat. Chinese animal prints, spots and stripes."
Further, Vivienne hand-painted eyes looking at the Matisse paintings of beautiful women and her own eyes. She also references the evil eye talisman, a worldwide symbol of protection.
We used Peter Bruegel's painting 'The Fight Between Carnival and Lent', 1559, housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It’s the human condition, teeming with life, painted during the Little Ice Age around the time Henry VIII roasted game on the frozen Thames. According to the theory, people were eating mouldy corn which is the same fungus used in LSD. They became obsessed with hell and witches. The paintings are surreal but they penetrated the big picture.
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