Icon of British style turns her hand to Italian furnishings

From the 16th to the 21st of April, Vivienne Westwood will open the doors of her boutique in 25 Corso Venezia on the occasion of the International Furniture Exhibition 2008 to present the new collection of chairs with limited-edition fabrics developed in collaboration with Molteni&C. The collection promises to be an interpretation of classic with a typically British irony, exclusive, but not elitist, cosmopolitan and on the cutting edge.

A new collection of chairs, dressed in “Squiggle” fabric with new shades of red on a brown background, and of charcoal on a cream background, limited edition Vivienne Westwood for Molteni&C, is going to be presented at the designer’s headquarters. Vivienne Westwood’s creations are worn by armchairs Glove and Clipper, a new Freestyle composition and the pouf Domino.

Glove, design Patricia Urquiola, is a chair with a completely removable cover and made up of a metal structure lined with fabric (or, alternatively, with leather or microfibre), for which the Spanish designer drew her inspiration from an idea of cover that should fit the chair like “a glove”.

Freestyle, design Ferruccio Laviani, is a modular system exploiting the possibility of endless combinations among several available elements to freely create linear and corner solutions.

The pattern of the “Squiggle” fabric was born in the early 80s and marks one of Vivienne Westwood’s most famous collections, Pirates, inspired by the pirates of North America and the French “Merveilleuses” of the early nineteenth century, through which the designer was acknowledged as one of the world’s fashion icons.

Furnishings are like dresses - to look at and enjoy.

Vivienne Westwood, Corso Venezia 25, Milan, April 16-21, 10.00 am - 9.00 pm.