Huxley & Westwood

Upon furthering my love for Westwood for my CCS project/essay and following up it with watching Vivienne Westwoods “Do It Yourself!” film she talked about her influences in her fashion. About 6years ago she looked back and asked herself “What you I talk to young people today?” The answer that she shows into her collections is her politics, which she has always projected over her reign as the British Queen of Fashion especially in the 1970s when she styled the punk movement.

Huxley is one of the main influences to her especially with her attitude to consumerism including the climate change. She uses fashion as a medium to not only to show her collection but has a much more deeper meaning which she is using to show messages and make people think.

The manifesto “Active Resistance to Propaganda”, AR as it is known, was influenced by these 3 statements by Huxley, as they are believed to all be the components of propaganda also the DIY movement. The worst evil to Dame Viv is non-stop distraction – if your head is full of rubbish such as TV to superficial things you become part of the consumer treadmill and sucking things up and not putting effort in to change your life instead you become a follower in conformity. Breaking away from these things will change your life and give you a much wider scope to the way you perceive and look at the world. This is a graphic which she make using the 3 evils and transferring it into a pill which people take or are given by politicians everyday.