Designer News. Rule Britannia. Vivienne Westwood Takes Her Runway Show Back to London

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After 9 years Vivienne Westwood finally heard London calling. Fashionwiredaily reports the British designer is taking her avant-garde clad runway show back to London. And while her main show will be headed back, “Westwood will continue to show her first line, the demi-couture Gold Label, as usual in Paris later in the month. When she staged her debut fashion show in Paris, Westwood became the first British designer to do so since Mary Quant in the Sixties.
Her men’s collection, known as Man, will also stay put, though in its case in Milan,” they report. Sometimes a girl’s gotta go home. — Amy Ko, Senior Editor

Westwood On Her Way Back to London
Godfrey Deeny
December 17th, 2007 @ 11:23 AM – Paris
Vivienne Westwood will return to the London catwalk this season, staging her Red Label collection in the British capital for the first time in nine years.
“We are back by popular demand,” insisted Westwood, the doyen of British avant-garde designers.
“The sales of all of our lines are increasing and we decided that the Red Label, which is successful worldwide and so popular in the UK, should have its own show,” added Dame Westwood, who began presenting Red in New York in the late Nineties.
Her return marks the latest homecoming by a UK designer and follows on the heels of Luella Bartley and Matthew Williamson, who both moved their runway events back to London last season, exiting the Manhattan catwalks.
Westwood, who awarded a DBE in 2006 “for services to fashion” and thus can title herself a Dame, will stage the Red label show in London’s fashion season, scheduled from Sunday Feb. 10 to Friday Feb. 15, 2008.
Vivienne’s logo is a royal ORB with a cross on to; punkily bejeweled it’s an apt image for a designer sometimes nicknamed the Queen of British fashion.
Westwood will continue to show her first line, the demi-couture Gold Label, as usual in Paris later in the month. When she staged her debut fashion show in Paris, Westwood became the first British designer to do so since Mary Quant in the Sixties.
Her men’s collection, known as Man, will also stay put, though in its case in Milan.
Vivienne launched her Red Label collection in 1994 to build a wider market for her own inimitable mélange of historic British tailoring and French chic.
Besides fashion, Westwood designs watches, her own tartan, an eyewear collection and table ware for Wedgwood, as well as boasting five perfumes ranging from Boudoir to Libertine

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