\u201cShoes must have very high heels to put a woman\u2019s beauty on a pedestal.\u201d Vivienne Westwood is unequalled for developing shoes with ingenious style and with a more than audacious instep. These shoes-cum-works of art have established themselves as collector\u2019s pieces since the 80s. But the legend of Vivienne Westwood began 10 years earlier. In the 70s, a young punk girl, alongside her husband, opened her first boutique at 430 King\u2019s Road in London. This woman was Vivienne Westwood, and the man that accompanied her was none other than Malcolm McLaren, manager of bands like the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols. In this boutique they sold records, souvenirs, and created clothing inspired by the 50s. The boutique was named SEX\u2019 and, sure enough, band members would soon flock to it, largely contributing to the development of its renown.<\/p>\n
It was with her 1981 collection that Vivienne Westwood truly imposed her style and her label. Dubbed \u2018Pirate\u2019, the collection was woven around a fantasy composed entirely of swashbuckling clothes, fit for a bandit, built on the myth of dandies, buccaneers, and other pirates. Among these pieces, each more grandiloquent than the next, one particularly attracted attention: the timeless Pirate Boots. Hand-made in London since 1981, and brought back out each season ever since, they are the incarnation and the height of laid-back cool. A flexible upper gives it a totally soft and nonchalant side. Since the leather is untreated, it turns a warm color over time. The more they\u2019re taken for a spin, the prettier they get! A prolific designer of shoes with a fetish for style, Westwood confesses that her work is often fun in itself. \u201cThe shoes are sexy. I mean that everything has to be sexy. That\u2019s the goal for my work. I want my ideas to enter fashion.\u201d How could anyone forget the monumental Super elevated gillies that Naomi Campbell first tottered around in in 1993 while walking down the VW catwalk? Since become essential objects in the contemporary world, Vivienne Westwood\u2019s shoes are undeniably the icons of \u201cMade in England\u201d fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cShoes must have very high heels to put a woman\u2019s beauty on a pedestal.\u201d Vivienne Westwood is unequalled for developing shoes with ingenious style and with a more than audacious instep. These shoes-cum-works of art have established themselves as collector\u2019s pieces since the 80s. But the legend of Vivienne Westwood began 10 years earlier. In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[925,38,8726,8087,34,36,84,15673,2984,1940],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion-accessories","category-shoes","tag-boots","tag-fashion","tag-histoire","tag-history","tag-icon","tag-iconic","tag-mode","tag-pirate-boots","tag-vintage","tag-vivienne-westwood"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n