Punk icon Vivienne Westwood hails ‘wonderful’ Corbyn at London Men’s Fashion Week
Never shy of protest, rebel fashion designer Vivienne Westwood has again made a political statement in a runway show
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s success in last week’s general election is a signal of hope for Britain, rebel fashion designer Vivienne Westwood told AFP on Monday at the launch of her latest collection.
Corbyn’s Labour Party came second in the parliamentary race but with a large increase in seats, while Prime Minister Theresa May’s ruling Conservatives lost ground after calling the snap election in a bid to increase her majority.
“This is wonderful. He really gives us hope,” the 76-year-old Westwood, a founder of the punk movement in the 1970s, said of Corbyn, speaking shortly before her label’s catwalk show at Men’s Fashion Week.
“I do belive that it’s the only party that is a strong opposition and they’ve got it right,” she said.
She called Labour’s leftist manifesto “brilliant” and underlined 68-year-old Corbyn’s appeal to a younger generation inspired by his firebrand politics.
