Quadretto di famiglia…
da sinistra: Andreas Kronthaler (marito), Dora Swire (mamma), Dame Vivienne Westwood, Cora Corre (nipote)
(from www.daylimail.co.uk – 09/06/2006)
Fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood went to Buckingham Palace today without her knickers once again and wearing a pair of silver horns.
The style icon caused a stir in 1992 when she collected her OBE from the Queen minus her underwear and twirled round in the courtyard to reveal all.
This time, after she was made a Dame by the Prince of Wales, she shyly disclosed she was knicker-less again, adding: “Don’t ask. It’s the same answer. I don’t wear them with dresses. When I’m wearing trousers I might – my husband’s silk boxers.”
She insisted she would not be spinning around in the Palace to demonstrate this.
“It’s a different dress – that’s why I span around (then). I forgot.”
Today, she said her outfit – a black cap perched on the back of her vibrant orange hair and a black dress with campaign badges and the tiny horns on her head – showed her as an urban guerilla and a Che Guevara figure.
The tiny horns attached to her head were not the sign of the devil, she insisted.
“It’s a fantastic dress with a sort of net stole. My clothes reflect my political feeling.
“I’m supposed to be a bit like a Che Guevara – an urban guerilla, with my cap, this kind of jungle net and a badge for my Active Resistance to Propaganda campaign.
“The horns – we need a new renaissance. We don’t have culture. It’s a pagan symbol. They’re attached by a wire round the back of my head. It’s only the Christian religion that says they’re anything to do with the Devil. They can be a fertility symbol and be about good things.”
Dame Vivienne wore thin lines of bright blue eyeliner over her eyelids and in place of her eyebrows.
Her shoes were black mules decorated with lines of studded metal holes.
She said Charles did not inquire about her undergarments.
“No, of course not,” she remarked. But she did disclose that the Queen apparently found the 1992 incident quite funny.
“I met a man who worked with the Queen and he said she was rather amused by it.”
She added that the Prince said he hoped her award would help her career.
Dame Vivienne said she was delighted with accolade. “It’s so beautiful,” she said holding the scarlet ribboned honour. “It’s such a lovely colour.”
She was joined by her husband Andreas Kronthaler, her elderly mother Dora Swire, and her eight-year-old granddaughter Cora Corre, who is also Malcolm McLaren’s grandchild.
Cora wore a green netted top and blue cap. Dame Vivienne said: “Her outfit is based on mine. She’s a little guerilla.”
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