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February 15, 2008 10:03 am
Rumors ran rampant all week that Kate Moss was going to open the Vivienne Westwood show, the designer’s first in London in nine years. She didn’t—and no one cared. In a giant old-mail sorting facility by King’s Cross, hundreds came out to pay homage to Westwood, who paid homage to… herself. Coco Rocha and Lily Donaldson stomped down the runway done up à la Viv, in flaming ginger hair and pale makeup. The Red Label clothes were vintage Westwood—a little tartan, a little S&M—but there was clearly more on her mind than what to wear. A few weeks ago, the original fashion agitator told people to buy art rather than clothes. Last night, her statement was more overtly political. The show opened with a model carrying a placard reading, “Fair trial my arse,” a reference to Guantanamo Bay. But the politics couldn’t trump the clothes. As Kelly Osbourne, with the Stewart girls and Jemma Kidd at her side, commented afterward, “What can I say? It was fucking hot.”
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