Vivienne Westwood. 1 April to 11 July 2004
‘... it's so important to look to the past. Because people did have taste, and they did have ideals of excellence, and those things are not going to come unless people look at the past’ Vivienne Westwood
Chronology | Collections


Vivienne Westwood photo 1990 and 1991 Awarded Fashion Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council.

1991 Chosen to show in the Tokyo Fashion Summit, alongside Christian Lacroix, Isaac Mizrahi and Franco Moschino.
1992 Wedding Gowns introduced to the collections.

Westwood is made Honorary Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art.

Shop opens 43 Conduit Street, London.

Westwood creates a watch design called 'Putti' for Swatch.

Exhibits at Musée d'Art, Bordeaux, France.

Awarded an O.B.E by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Westwood marries Andreas Kronthaler whom she met whilst teaching in Vienna.

1993 Appointed Professor of Fashion at the Berliner Hochschule der Künste. Designs 'Orb', a second watch for Swatch.

Westwood commissions her own tartan 'Mac Andreas' for the Anglomania Collection, as a tribute to her husband. It appears in the records of the official Lochcarron Museum.

1994 Invitation by Littlewoods catalogue to design a mail-order range.

May: Westwood wins the first Institute of Contemporary Art Award for outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Culture.

Designs Ancien Régime costumes in carpet to celebrate the founding in 1783 of the carpet company Brintons.

1996 Westwood's menswear label 'Man', is launched in January in Milan.

Spring: The three-part Channel 4 series, Painted Ladies, is broadcast.

1998 Debut fragrance, Boudoir, is launched. Vivienne Westwood Ltd awarded the Queen's Award for Export in recognition of the company's growing export market.

1999 The Red Label is launched in the United States in February, coinciding with the opening of Westwood's first shop in New York.

Accessories lines are introduced including the Eyewear collection and the 'Coquetteries' Body and bath line.

2000 The Museum of London holds the exhibition 'Vivienne Westwood: the collection of Romilly McAlpine from 7 April to 25 June 2000.

A second fragrance, Libertine, is launched in Europe.

2001 Vivienne Westwood is the first designer to be honoured at the Moët & Chandon Fashion Tribute held at the V&A.

2002 February: Shop opens in Hong Kong, followed by accessories shop in August.

2003 June: Awarded the UK fashion Export Award for Design.

September: Shop opens in Milan.

October: Shop opens in Liverpool.

2004 Vivienne Westwood retrospective opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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