Vivienne Westwood was made famous by creating clothes for Malcolm McLarens boutique, which became famous as the clothes make 'SEX'.
Her clothes were worn by Malcolm Mclarens band, 'The Sex Pistols' as she was deeply inspired by punk fashion.
Been described for being responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into mainstream.
Her logo is taken from Harris tweed.
Harris Tweed took her to court but Vivienne Westwood won the legal battle after finding that there was 3 fundamental differences between her logo and theres.
Vivienne Westwood joined forces with the british civil rights group Liberty and Launched exclusive limited design T-shirts bearing the slogan 'I am not a terrorist, please don't arrest me' These were in support of habeas corpus, which is a writ (legal action) which requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. Which ensures that a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention, a detention lacking cause or evidence.
These are a small example of them,
She also created a manifesto of Active resistance to propaganda and is a political activist. Which deals with the pursuit of art in relation to the human predicament and climate change.
She is a avid supporter of the climate revolution/change.
After researching this i then went to the shop and asked the question,
How much emphasis do her political views have on her clothes she designs?
Within each collection she tries to convey a message. E.g the spring summer collection of 2012 is based around climate change.
After researching this much about Vivienne Westwood i thought one of the most interesting things about her was the fact she was a avid supporter of climate change, so i now have decided to look into climate change which i also feel will have many facts and figures within it.
Climate change brings unpredictable changes, strong hurricanes are becoming more frequent and melting glaciers and precipitation cause rivers to overflow.
According to some climate scientists we need to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050 to prevent a catastrophic climate change.
Between 1980 and 2006 the number of climate related disasters has quadrupled.
By 2030 climate change could push food prices up by 50 to 90 percent.
If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations to double pre industrial levels, this will be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2 to 5 degrees.
I then selected a recent event that had occurred to research.
Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Magnitude 9.03
Most powerful earthquake to hit Japan
Most powerful earthquake in the world since modern records were introduced
Triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of 40.5 meters
Travelled 6 miles inland
The earthquake moved Honshu (Japans main island) 2.4m east
It shifted the earth on its axis between 10cm and 25cm
15,88 deaths, 6,126 injured, 2,613 missing
4.4 million homes were left without electricity and 1.5 million without water
The tsunami was that strong that warnings were sent out over the whole pacific. Russia evacuated 11,000 residents from coastal areas of the Kuril Islands. The United States West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Centre issued a tsunami warning for the coastal areas in most of California, all of oregon, and the western part of Alaska, and a tsunami advisory covering the Pacific coastline of most of Alaska, and all of Washington and British Columbia, Canada. In California and Oregan, up to 2.4m high tsunami surges hit some areas, damaging docks and harbours and causing over $10 million in damage.
A part of this earthquake i found fascinating was the aftershocks, where over 800 aftershocks of a magnitude 4.5 or greater have occurred after the initial earthquake.
3 aftershocks after the main earthquake were recorded at 7.0, 7.4 and 7.2
Aftershocks could last years. As of 2012 there has been 1887 aftershocks.
The rate of aftershocks with time follows Omori's Law. Omori's law is observed relation for the time based decay of aftershock rates. In 1894, Fusakichi Omori published his work on the aftershock of earthquakes, in which he stated that aftershock frequency decreases by roughly the reciprocal of time after the main shock.
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