After appearing with Dame Viv and her husband, Andreas Kronthaler, in the Vivienne Westwood Spring advertising campaign, Pamela Anderson walked the runway at today s Fall show. Her first time out, Pammy s arms were bound behind her back. She s not exactly your typical fashion muse, and her getup wasn t exactly the kind of thing you expect to see on the catwalk—but remember who we re talking about here. Westwood also saw fit to send out three-meter lengths of raw-cut fabric tossed about the shoulders and call them cloaks; then there were the dresses with crinolines permanently kicked up, the hems inching past the models ears as if they had found themselves in the middle of a hurricane.
Speaking of inclement weather, Westwood dubbed her collection "+5°," as in the five degrees the earth s average temperatures are calculated to rise as CO2 levels skyrocket. The symbol appeared on T-shirts, and the message gave her a good excuse to extend the do-it-yourself/consume-less idea she put forth last season, this time via borrowed-from-your man s-closet big jackets. Amid Anderson s shenanigans and the political propaganda there were one or two moments that recalled Westwood s iconoclastic heyday: a Lurex-shot Edwardian jacket worn with baggy camo-print cargos for one, and a black dévoré velvet, one-shoulder, asymmetrically wrapped dress for another. But it would ve required a few more for this collection to be taken seriously.
