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Daily Telegraph November 2004
Punk is all sewn up
Vivienne Westwood, 34 years in fashion
National Gallery of Australia
Exhibition
Are you tall, curvaceous and self-confident and busty, with a well-stocked designer purse? You are? then Vivienne Westwood might just find a place in your wardrobe.
Australia is a tiny, outer star in the Westwood retailing constellation, says Eva Galambos, the owner and buyer for niche Paddington boutique PARLOUR X.The Westwood style is suited to curvy, sexy, chesty women, Galambos says."That's the demographic of my (average) customer, so it's not a problem""But its not a (common) Australian demographic by a long shot" But Westwood creations are too raunchy and glamorous for most Aussies, who prefer to go casual. And often as not, we just don't get the Westwood point. "Some of her fits will accentuate the bottom; I just don't know if Australian people will understand that humour," Galambos says.Women who "love and understand" Westwood are loyal buyers who wear their Red label pieces for years & years.
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