Vivienne Westwood: 'Punk was just an excuse for people to run around'

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  • Vivienne Westwood on punk, art, education and why a book is the best status symbol

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  • @PaulyPaulPaul
    @PaulyPaulPaul ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I studied fine art at art college. Something she said years ago stuck in my head, it was something like: People are always asking me How can I create original work. Create work you like, don't try to imitate others. If you create what you like, you are unique, so your work will be too.
    She was all about honest with yourself.

  • @anishasandhu
    @anishasandhu 10 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    i loved when she was talking about buying less clothes and consuming less and just wearing pieces that you love.

  • @bernstyles
    @bernstyles 4 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    70s punk was freedom, it broke rules of conservatism and censorship. It was anti-establishment, political, pro- honesty. It gave young minorities, lower class, the unloved, a place they could be themselves. It was artistic and creative, powerful and entertaining.

    • @rajanm5571
      @rajanm5571 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Except the most popular punk bands and most people involoved with punk were middle class teens

    • @mrsuperger5429
      @mrsuperger5429 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Punk was spoilt, entitled, middle class left wing brats. The modern equivalent are Extinction Rebellion. They'll calm down in a few years when the big paid job in the City is offered via one of Mummy or Daddy's rich friends.

    • @jellokween1680
      @jellokween1680 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes i love her, but to be so trite about punk is comfortable from a place of wealth i suppose.but for us working class folk it meant alot more than jumping about .

    • @williamlawrence6194
      @williamlawrence6194 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always thought Punk was kind of conservative.

    • @char4590
      @char4590 ปีที่แล้ว

      exactly and they were all very political and activists and they actually helped the world by demonstrating

  • @queenrhema
    @queenrhema 11 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    she was one of the main influences of punk in terms of clothing so she does understand it, i feel what shes's trying to say is now people are using the punk movement to base their identity and personality on it without having any real substance or any personality at, people dress in this fashion to stand but really are just going with the crowd because everybody dresses like that, so they are another victim of fashion and the sad thing about it is they thing they are not about of fashion

    • @yeeaahhzz
      @yeeaahhzz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yep, most people felt targeted and just got whoooshed

  • @danieledwardbennett
    @danieledwardbennett ปีที่แล้ว +9

    She’s a lot more insightful than I realised.

  • @ceejaydoyle
    @ceejaydoyle 12 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    ever so slightly sweeping, generalised statements here vivienne, "the whole twentieth century was a mistake...not an idea happened in the twentieth century"

    • @louise-yo7kz
      @louise-yo7kz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      She's a little off. That's what I love about her

    • @johnhareiel5118
      @johnhareiel5118 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yet she made bank off of it

  • @Oooo-bi7bi
    @Oooo-bi7bi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I was born in 73 so bought punk records as a kid not knowing they were. Also I lived in a post punk world where I believed I could do what I wanted even though I am working class.

    • @Oooo-bi7bi
      @Oooo-bi7bi 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Pontiac Soviro thanks for your reply and agreeing. I generally comment late at night so tired and often intoxicated.

  • @FrankD3an
    @FrankD3an 10 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    She was one of THE faces of punk. Vivienne designed the anarchy sign, the use of tartan and bondage in the punk era. She also dated Malcom Mclaren ( the manager of the sex pistols ) so if you think she didn't get punk, you need to think about what you are saying hahahaha

    • @jeremyjames8678
      @jeremyjames8678 9 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      The Anarchism symbol, circled A, has been around since the 1800's. First used by the International Workers Association in Spain.

    • @alexlynn5111
      @alexlynn5111 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      doseny mean you have to agree with her. But I dont even like the Sex Pistols so

    • @brettrattle3140
      @brettrattle3140 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      She saw, created and profited. Good for her. Repeated generation after generation. Naivete - generation after generation,. The world keeps turning...LOL

    • @ottoacid1800
      @ottoacid1800 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Alex, if you don't like the Sex Pistols, you don't like punk.

    • @deafanddestructiononthepis3149
      @deafanddestructiononthepis3149 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She marketed punk, because she didn't 'get' punk

  • @ElisaBenaggoune
    @ElisaBenaggoune 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    yes punks still not dead

  • @skyunderliner
    @skyunderliner 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I can't say I'm too familiar with this lady and so I dont think I was even ready for her clear and real points. I think a lot of people look back on the idea of punk as a perspective and use the term quite loosely. To me and the people I know: true hippies are punks. Authenticity is punk in a world that forces us to be otherwise. Maybe we shouldnt use the term as an ideology but I feel that's what a lot of my younger generation do and it is still an inspiration to us. Maybe even a dilutions one

  • @Unclerussleslovechil
    @Unclerussleslovechil 11 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    @queen odetunde at the end of the day she wasnt complaining about punks when she was cashing in lol

  • @imdead1922
    @imdead1922 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Punk is complaining about things hardcore punk is doing something about it

  • @CandideSchmyles
    @CandideSchmyles 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Need to hold it that this is a short monologue. Definitive truth is impossibly complex. A Taoist idea is to call things greater and lesser truths. That idea certainly aids forming a balanced narrative around the object. I think Vivienne spoke greater truth but in a highly contextualised reference. Punk can and has been employed as designed to be a label. As a bona fide 70's punk however I can state that the politics were more attractive than the fashion.

  • @ianshaw2321
    @ianshaw2321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Kids walking around with catcher in the rye under their arm didnt do John Lennon any favours.

  • @jamesemmett1
    @jamesemmett1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    It's nice that some people regard intelligence and intellect as status. Nowadays it's about how big your house is, or how expensive your car is. Status isn't about that at all. Superficiality and consumption is a load if crap. Thinking about life and the world you live in gives you something to build on, somewhere to go. Without an aim in life you can't get anywhere.

  • @d1969writer
    @d1969writer 13 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The 2nd half of this, where she talks about art truthfully representing certain moments, I liked.... but the 1st half, where she talks about punk and makes huge pronouncements about the 20th Cent, is as full of crap as her new boutique on Melrose Ave in L.A. She is her own best example of someone who gives opinions off the top of her head w/o thinking it through. Yes, the era was full of tragedy, but it also produced geniuses like Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, and Lanford Wilson, to name a few!

  • @JRStephens5005
    @JRStephens5005 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "One truth is no more true than another".......Mmmm, not sure I agree. Genuine truth transcends time and social mores and schools of thought. It is immutable. That is the comfort of truth - that it gives society stability in ages of upheaval. And we humans need that stability to survive.

    • @denisesheehan9189
      @denisesheehan9189 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well said. Different viewpoints are presented in Art over time, but Truth is what stayed despite time.

    • @Beeoog
      @Beeoog 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      As far as context goes (which should always be taken into consideration), pretty sure she’s talking about personal and artistic truth.

  • @punkscience
    @punkscience 12 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    No ideas came out of the twentieth century? Hmm...relativity? quantum theory? The latter is the reason why you are watching her words on a PC or tablet etc right now.

  • @strawberryjpeg6000
    @strawberryjpeg6000 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is such a good interview

  • @anatureperson5551
    @anatureperson5551 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I want her hat. Where can I buy it?

  • @cesaralmeida3292
    @cesaralmeida3292 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    it's all about fashion...

  • @Titanicdork133
    @Titanicdork133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Has she got dementia? Buy less stuff? Stop doing yearly fashion shows.. do one a decade. Punks have no credibility? She basically became famous because of punk.

    • @redlady935
      @redlady935 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      She talks nonsense but is kind of interesting for someone talking nonsense. I think she is showing signs of dementia

  • @caseywilliams4157
    @caseywilliams4157 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love her but why on earth would she advise people to not go to the Tate? Isn't she all about museums and learning? Hasn't she based several pieces in her wonderful collections on things she's seen in museums?

    • @vargaso
      @vargaso 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Because most of modern art is rubbish.

  • @lydiarowe491
    @lydiarowe491 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lessons for those who listen to what Vivienne has to say can bring change to their existing...reason beyond...💜

  • @andtheywillknowusbyourname5511
    @andtheywillknowusbyourname5511 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like punk rock music but I don't dress like it and I don't conform to it I'm just a 13 year old boy who goes to school...

  • @sharktooth368
    @sharktooth368 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mainly like what she said about a book being a status. No one from this generation would every do that, we walk around staring at our phones. Maybe one kid will have the guts to to that one day...

  • @masterbracknell808
    @masterbracknell808 6 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    im starting to get annoyed with her

  • @dimitrakourtali
    @dimitrakourtali 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love Vivienne so much!💜💜💜💜

  • @paularmstrong2306
    @paularmstrong2306 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She always told me and my mate to get out of Seditionaries because we didn't "look right". We were never sure if she meant "clothes wise" or "right in the head". We left anyway - she was like a scary Headmistress who tried to dress trendy. Very authoritarian.

  • @yourfashionarchive427
    @yourfashionarchive427 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    She’s so cool

  • @Unclerussleslovechil
    @Unclerussleslovechil 12 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Some wise words but also some bollocks, it's easy for you to sit there on your thrown "telling it how it is" but something tells me you really don't get the punk movement and what it means and ment to people! I miss real punk :-(

    • @joshsmith7812
      @joshsmith7812 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unclerussleslovechil Oh she knows punk.

  • @MikeBriggs-ds8eb
    @MikeBriggs-ds8eb ปีที่แล้ว +1

    rest in peace Vivien

  • @biomusicology1441
    @biomusicology1441 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so affecting

  • @michelleayliffe3310
    @michelleayliffe3310 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What is she on?

  • @philshine3388
    @philshine3388 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Hilarious!
    I don’t really think she’s the person to ask about punk. She just happened to supply the clothes that made the pistols look fantastic. She was a bystander. Punk needed to happen and the creative opportunities it created can still be felt today.

    • @wickis
      @wickis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      bro you have no clue... just clothes... it all ties together bud. the music, art, fashion. she knows damn well what shes talking about

    • @howareyou857
      @howareyou857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Then I suggest you read the biographies of the lady herself and Jordan Mooney.

  • @depressedlife2721
    @depressedlife2721 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    😍

  • @picses35
    @picses35 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dont totally agree with her, definatley not about punk. But her personal thoughts are hers and we can disagree ir even agree with some or none. But calling her an old bag is just being spitefull. Age truly has much to offer.. Posted by an older bag..

  • @diablazjamz
    @diablazjamz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you thought the 20th century was bad, how do you feel about the 21st?

  • @Chrisloyrd
    @Chrisloyrd 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    oh my god she's smart

  • @notaclue822
    @notaclue822 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    She's beautiful.

  • @nameandsurname33
    @nameandsurname33 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love her

  • @hallson2917
    @hallson2917 ปีที่แล้ว

    R.I.P V.W!

  • @char4590
    @char4590 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The punk movement was never just about fashion or being a rebel. it was mainly because of the music, which always had very political lyrics. the punks were incredibly political and so much was about protesting and being against right-wing things and fighting for freedom and being a leftist. the punks of course liked to be rebels and wear edgy clothing but it wasn't just that. they helped the world become better in so many ways. that is undeniable and shouldn't be downplayed. at least true punks did.

    • @clifftonl-vuitton2770
      @clifftonl-vuitton2770 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the specifically makes her the first poser

    • @user-jg2rw3ni5y
      @user-jg2rw3ni5y 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is her view on punk as one of the the leading architects of punk fashion and someone who was in the heart of the UK punk music scene. I think she knows what she's talking about.

  • @goldenbeetle8636
    @goldenbeetle8636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    shes kinda just rambling

  • @Radioactive1080z
    @Radioactive1080z 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish she were my grandma

  • @gunkwretch102
    @gunkwretch102 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    what broad sweeping comments, she has just judged all people and all things within the 20th century in less then three minutes, by her own admission then i guess even she didnt do anything in it either. She also somehow knows all the motivations and minds of all people interested in a punk lifestyle, yup thats what it was for everyone.. clothes!

  • @lxworld
    @lxworld 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Whilst I agree with her in earnest, I consider some of the best pop music to have been made in the late 20th century. Pet Shop Boys, for example. I consider that to be art as much as a Michelangelo. The way it differs is in the way we consume it.

  • @freddieq.2183
    @freddieq.2183 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Clever

  • @gogoyubari366
    @gogoyubari366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She sounds like Sharon Osbourne.

  • @FernandoBarreto2612
    @FernandoBarreto2612 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    não basta saber só um pouco de história de arte, é preciso vivê-la para ser incorporada/assimilada . arte não é para todos ( do ponto de vista da criação ) , é algo que usufrui dos benefícios da liberdade mas que depois os projecta em direcção a um desconhecido fantasma e espera depois que isso sobreviva aos demónios do criador .
    insulto não altera a realidade
    pouco se caminhou de diferente no século XX porque afinal os insultos vêem até de séculos anteriores, apesar de freud, reich, jung,

  • @maryloch4385
    @maryloch4385 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Catcher in the Rye?... I think it's meant to symbolize having a friend

  • @kmoralification
    @kmoralification 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    damn straight!

  • @andrealuisecandido1154
    @andrealuisecandido1154 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    am no Rebel am a woman
    and am a woman dressmaker
    bcse of ThaT i weared ThaT Style
    few years noThing Else.

  • @Khultan
    @Khultan 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Uh oh, she's trippin'.

  • @tomhorrid
    @tomhorrid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    'don't buy clothes' says millionaire fashion designer

  • @musicsavage
    @musicsavage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "We are rebels, break everything from the past: it has no credibility." says the woman wearing a Chaos beanie.

  • @pablojavieralfaro8999
    @pablojavieralfaro8999 ปีที่แล้ว

    . I truly love her. However, the 20th century had plenty of great thinkers: Freud, Sartre, Beauvoir, Foucault, Sontag.

  • @alexandrinacalderoni3627
    @alexandrinacalderoni3627 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hahahahahahahahahahahaha...i think she forget something? ..oooh yes!... forget talk about the money...she get old..and monkeybussines.

  • @finnmanproductions9240
    @finnmanproductions9240 ปีที่แล้ว

    She’s not wrong there.

  • @VladiFx
    @VladiFx 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    oh, of cource... it was a marketing... in eastern eurpe punk musicians gone to jail becouse of the lyrics...

  • @drnuke7393
    @drnuke7393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    stick to making fashion clothes Vivienne ... your historical and political views are too silly for comment.

  • @jaymusseato
    @jaymusseato 11 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Punk REALLY has NOTHING to do with THIS chick...Vivienne's cool but she's just a USURPER...INDIVIDUAL KIDS on the street DETERMINED what "PUNK" was going to LOOK like...(which was mostly a mixture of fashion appropriated from the PAST...like Flappers, Dandies, Tramps, Rockers, Mods, Skinheads, etc)...She successfully EXPLOITED other's ideas to ADVANCE herself...and in terms of "MOVEMENTS", how about having a good ol' fashion BOWEL movement all over ALL OPPORTUNISTS...FASHION is FALLACIOUS.

    • @kellylai2908
      @kellylai2908 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But she actually does something to try to make changes. Punk is about making changes too right?

  • @cl759
    @cl759 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    looks more like edited bit of random thoughts specially designed to make somebody look stupid or her incoherent.

  • @williamrobinson4265
    @williamrobinson4265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I dont think she knows what a crust punk is

  • @JohnSmith-su3ze
    @JohnSmith-su3ze 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Who is this strange woman?
    She knows absolutely nothing about punk whatsoever

    • @yseoliveira
      @yseoliveira 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      +John Smith She's a fashion designer, the band Sex Pistols started because of her and her store "Sex". She basically started the punk movement in UK.

    • @JohnSmith-su3ze
      @JohnSmith-su3ze 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      How can a fashion designer start a band?
      Which instrument did she play? Keyboards?

    • @yseoliveira
      @yseoliveira 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +John Smith Her husband did. Her store was a point in London, where the young guys used to go, and people said her store was so awesome that deserved a band. Then her husband called some friends and started the Sex Pistols. He was the manager of the band. That's what I've learned.

    • @JohnSmith-su3ze
      @JohnSmith-su3ze 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yse Oliveira I am impressed that you take the time to learn these things. You are going to become very knowledgable if you keep this up

    • @yseoliveira
      @yseoliveira 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      John Smith Thanks, I guess! I've learned in college, when we had to do papers about fashion icons, I did about her.

  • @owo4424
    @owo4424 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    its not just “fashion”

  • @contradictator7482
    @contradictator7482 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Buy less She says as her brand is mass produced...

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rest in peace...saying it like it is...the swindle continued...I think ya both were artistic mindfrickers who like their money

  • @billymink
    @billymink 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    To be honest with you you I don't think you've ever read a book in your life and ask for cutting patterns for trousers and T-shirts you couldn't and everything used to buy from seditionaries would fall to pieces in a few weeks even though is it cost a fortune in 1976

  • @urakunt866
    @urakunt866 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Champagne socialist

    • @jemima216
      @jemima216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lotta Krap no she's a champagne capitalist. Full stop.

  • @punkartpunkart
    @punkartpunkart 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I do not really agree with her, but its true that punk was juste a fashion stuff for her and the shitty SexPistols-Look!!!
    But I totally agree that "art ans self-education" is the only way we have to go...

  • @5aeeda
    @5aeeda 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Malcolm was the grandson of a super-rich blood diamond dealer. He knew how to make money; get 20 year old high testosterone boys to act rebellious, wear weird clothes, make noise and develop a following ensuring younger children will buy daft clothes and records. For Vivienne and Malcolm it was about making money and gaining a status. Those who worshipped their clothes and puppet band, should have worshipped God instead. Tell your children, don't let rich biches make fools of you. Don't buy clothes which make you look like idiots. They laugh at your stupidity while going to the bank.

    • @5aeeda
      @5aeeda 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +5aeeda Gandi was the real rebel; collecting his God-given free salt from the sea, wearing fabric made by the local weaver, he cut out the satanic british empire. That is the true rebellion, when you do not pay any taxes to anyone except charity, in God's way. The Satanist Malcolm confused the young boys, suggesting they were doing antichrists work going against the queen. The queen is a representation of antichrist. God frees you from her chains.

    • @dankmeme7109
      @dankmeme7109 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +5aeeda piss off! U need to get a brain that works or just search up all the reasons ur imaginary friend in the sky,

    • @Neen88
      @Neen88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I was kinda with you at the start, even though I like punk as a style genre you had a point about it Malcolm knowing how to make money etc. HOWEVER you totally slashed it by bringing god into it, I don't mean to insult you but you can't seriously use that. Also you lost me when you said 'clothes which make you look like idiots' ...how people look in clothes is completely subjective so again you can't really use that as a solid point. You can't be militant with religious beliefs nor taste in fashion

  • @sandra-jones
    @sandra-jones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I shouldn't have watched this...

  • @hobbygamer6220
    @hobbygamer6220 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Punk is great fkn music wayta ??? 😳

  • @E.C.2
    @E.C.2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Punk Rock was a pop culture moment and time,society moved on. Looking back,it symbolized the implosion of Western Civilization. 2023 is the lowest recorded birthrate in history.

  • @TERRANOVAofficial
    @TERRANOVAofficial 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    aaaah please stop talking- you are destroying one of the biggest moments in fashion (sex/seditionaries/first 4 ys worlds end) - to not be confident/intelligent/honest enough to give some credit to malcolms driving energy behind this and jRottens genius aura in the recent autobiography is so shady- and those twisted re issues--- i used to live for these clothes and worship them- until this idiot austrian entered the scene... oh well enough hate- thank you for some of the most magic clothes ever made- and shoes too ! nowadays Agent Provocateur has a lot more original spirit than confused sqiggle re issues-

  • @AngryHateMusic
    @AngryHateMusic 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She looks a bit punk to me. Is that Eminem's hat?

    • @anthonym8205
      @anthonym8205 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Her punk look is well crafted.

  • @williamrobinson4265
    @williamrobinson4265 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what?? was she ever part of a real struggling community? I feel like this person missed the point their whole life

  • @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631
    @kikeheebchinkjigaboo6631 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cultural Marxists