Research On Vivienne Westwood's Costume Design Style Of 1970s And 1980s From The Perspective Of Youth Subcultures

The two decades of 1970s-1980s are the early stages of Vivienne Westwood's fashion design career,which have great significance to the formation of her personal design style.At the same time,with the multi polarization trend of the world political and economic structure,the youth groups have begun to shape a force gradually.In Britain,the United States and other Western countries,and even in the whole world,youth culture became more and more fierce.Vivienne captured and led one of the youth subculture movement,punk movement,in England during this period.And she pushed the part of culture in that to the climax through the fashion style.As per that,punk culture in Britain soon attracted many young people involved in.And the style of the clothing became the one of their artifice,which was the punk against the incorporation of mainstream culture.It provided a group identity for a large part of marginalized groups.On the other hand,in the process of making the identity,as the leader of punk culture and a fashion designer,Vivienne Westwood gradually established her own fashion style,which deeply influenced a series of her subsequent design.The punk fashion style that formed in 1970s and 1980s rooted in the respect of the history and tradition,and frankly based on the development of fact.The analysis of the design works of Vivienne Westwood in this period,can inspire the thinking of our young fashion designers.They are bound to return to youth groups and do not follow the trend and style blindly.By this way,with their own unique perspective into the influence of the youth and create meaningful style,they can make a breakthrough in fashion career.