Viewing Vivienne Westwood’s spectacular personal wardrobe at Christie’s

She remains one of the UK’s most mythologised fashion designers – who wouldn’t want a peek at what was in the late Dame Vivienne Westwood’s wardrobe?

Vivienne Westwood: The Personal Collection at Christie’s London includes some of the most important iconic looks that she created and wore during the last four decades of her life (Westwood passed away in 2022, age 81). The wardrobe contains garments, shoes and jewellery all made by Dame Vivienne Westwood’s eponymously named fashion house, and ranges from an early piece from the autumn/winter 1983/4 Witches collection up to signed cards from the 2017 pack of playing cards Dame Vivienne designed.

Westwood of course was as well known for her designs as for her activism and advocacy for urgent global issues like climate change. A live auction on 25 June will see the exhibits go under the hammer, raising money for causes Dame Vivienne supported throughout her life, with proceeds donated to The Vivienne Foundation, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières and Greenpeace.