Music fans obviously do remember Bow Wow Wow, originally founded by Malcolm McLaren to promote the fashion lines he released with his then partner Vivienne Westwood.
They probably also remember how an early '80s record cover ("See Jungle!" for the US market/"The Last of the Mohicans" for the UK market) paid homage to Manet’s “Le déjeuner sur l’herbe” and how it caused a major scandal because the band's underage singer was naked.
For her menswear S/S 2013 collection Westwood was back to her “Lunch on the Grass” inspirations, an apt influence if you think that the fashion house went also to last week's Rio+20, the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development.
The runway show was a vision of a summer picnic with models wearing flower wreaths, but the most interesting pieces, in an otherwise rather tamed collection, were the jackets and trousers with prints of grass stains.
They immediately made you think about abandoned or derelict damp buildings reclaimed by nature on which grass and greenery grow (like the one in this post, located in Glasgow).
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