Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood

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To be so full of energy and life at her age - and to rally against what you believe is detrimental to the future - environmental, creative and judicious... Support authors: If you like this and can afford it, consider buying the original, or supporting the authors directly. Vivienne Westwood is someone who says exactly what she thinks – all the time,” says Mark Ellingham, publisher at Profile Books and Serpent’s Tail. “That’s what makes her diaries so compelling. You never know what she’ll be writing about nor what she’ll choose to say about it.’ Everyone knows it: Vivienne Westwood is a goddess. But how did she transcend her mortal status? Aside from her visionary, arresting designs, what blows our minds about Westwood is her eternal youth. It’s not just her trendiness and her hot hubby. It’s her unwavering progressiveness. It’s her ability to see our world a little differently than most people, to hold on to some sort of child-like wonder over her surroundings. It’s her belief in the possibility of a different world, of a better world.

However, with that being said, it's a little hard to review somebody's innermost thoughts! So, I figure that I should tell you all right now that if you enjoy biographies, if you enjoy women with conviction, and if you enjoy reading about politics, this is the book for you. Honestly, just from reading this book, I can tell that Vivienne Westwood is a wholly genuine person. She's outspoken. She fights for what she believes in. Before I read this book, I think I just kind of figured that fashion designers were just high-class citizens who uphold a bourgeois status, not really socially and culturally aware. Vivienne Westwood shook me to my foundations. At last, I wanted to cry out, a celebrity who recognizes that politicians only care about themselves and who cares about the earth and who will actually do things about the things she cares about. She was a breath of fresh air. Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life , her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about Native American activist Leonard Peltier. Since then, she has written two or three entries each month, discussing her life in fashion and her involvement with art, politics and the environment. Yoga. I am rewriting my manifesto as I have inexplicably left out a section on Gaia. At yoga, I suddenly had the stunning revelation that Alice in Wonderland, a book written by Lewis Carroll, actually proves Einstein’s theory of relativity. Andreas thinks I might be on to something and says: “Wow, everything is connected.”

Please report metadata errors at the source library. If there are multiple source libraries, know that we pull metadata from top to bottom, so the first one might be sufficient. Stunning production qualities alone make this book very collectable. And then there are the personal colour photographs, fashion, celebrities, musings and reflections; the passion that is Vivienne Westwood. The godmother of punk has got a new book on the way. Entitled Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood, the book “spans six years of Climate Revolution, fashion and activism” according to the publisher.

She lives a busy, busy life - and as she records her daily routine we begin to get to know this woman - in an intimate productive way... Taking action is something Westwood does all the time – earlier this week she hit headlines for criticising the British Museum, calling for it to end its controversial sponsorship deal with oil and gas company BP. “As the impacts of climate change are being felt more forcefully around the world, it is vital that prominent public institutions like the British Museum play their part in minimising the environmental impacts of their activities...” she said. Amidst the big names and big ideas, there are rare, tender glimpses into Westwood’s marriage with the devoted Andreas.MD5 of a better version of this file (if applicable). Fill this in if there is another file that closely matches this file (same edition, same file extension if you can find one), which people should use instead of this file. If you know of a better version of this file outside of Anna’s Archive, then please upload it. At times there feels like a little too much name-dropping - but this is the circle she moves in....