Viv’s at 80

 Vivienne Westwood is marking her 80th birthday with a string of social and environmental warnings and a short film in which she sings a rewritten version of “Without You” from the musical “My Fair Lady.”

Age has not dimmed the designer’s activist passions, her determination to challenge the status quo—or her innate elegance. A portrait photographed by her husband Andreas Kronthaler shows her bright-eyed, vibrant and ethereal, with long white hair and sea green face paint.

To mark her big day, Westwood worked on a film with Circa, which commissions a different artist each month to create a new work for Europe’s largest screen in London’s Piccadilly Circus.

London remains in full lockdown, so those who cannot make it to Piccadilly Circus can also watch the 10-minute film, “Do Not Buy a Bomb,” online on: Circa.art

Her performance of “Without You” is an encore. She sang the same song for her fall 2021 collection film, which debuted last month.

Posted by: TAWD on April 9, 2021