Comments on: Dame Vivienne

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:41:38 +0000

Haha Piley – yes! I think it would be fair to say that most of the Liberty audience were older i.e. (35 – 60) and definitely thought that she fell into the “bonkers” category. I was more stunned that they even risked having her as a speaker. They must have known surely. McLaren would have been a better option as a speaker what with his ‘political side’ – didn’t he and Alan McGee plan to run for London Mayor a few years back?

By: Piley

Piley — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:59:10 +0000

Think Mondo has a point… Malc was always the brains. Funny enough, I remember seeing ‘our Viv’ on Jonathan Ross a couple of years back, and remember thinking then… “hmmm, you’re a bit bonkers aren’t you”!! I guess when you’re young, people thing thats “cooool”, when you’re old, it’s “bonkers”!! Malc on the other hand, always does seem to cover over as fairly shrewd.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:44:45 +0000

PM, I’m going to trust your judgement on this one. I don’t know nearly enough about Vivienne Westwood to judge whether she has any form, thought or substance – although if her freeflowing thoughts the other day were any indication, she certainly relied on Mclaren to give her structure, coherence and boundaries.

ISBW, no I haven’t! Actually, it’s not the episode where he interviews the ‘artistic’ fashion designer is it? It’s the same one with French clown troop who do the simulated sex acts I think. I wish my memory was better…

By: ishouldbeworking

ishouldbeworking — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:03:33 +0000

She confuses ‘being a character” with ‘being a terrible old bore’.

Did you ever listen to/see Alan Partridge’s send up of her? The radio version was even better than the TV one (‘Vivienne’ flashes him, prompting the horrified comment “Oh my god! I can still SEE it!”), but both are wonderful.

By: planet mondo

planet mondo — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:52:43 +0000

As much as I love her designs and influence, I don’t think she would be what she is without Malcom Mclaren’s influence. He’s always had form, thought and substance to his rhetoric and style – whether you liked what he was doing or not.

By: Cocktails

Cocktails — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:42:42 +0000

If only Vivienne had had some metaphors to mix BLTP… I’m sure she is very committed to human rights though – she designed a t-shirt about them.

By: BLTP

BLTP — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:34:31 +0000

did they get the right booking she’s not trustee of Liberties ?and just got flustered and did an off the cuff political speech? :)
I once went to a trustees speech were he called education in the space of 5 minutes , a torch to pass on but also a corner and a key stone and a pillar and yes the foundation of our work. It was then that the leaden albatross of mixed metaphor crashed though the window and put him out of his misery.