fashionRIP: vivienne westwood

Sunday, January 3, 2016

Viv Westwood ..Thank you

"you can change the world, we are the people, we have to. "

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Viv Westwood still going strong against the mainstream wind, pushing the tides of change. Doing right, standing tall and well still full of piss and vinegar. Strange phrase to mean "
feminine power" but thanks to a world of domination, divide and unfounded arrogance, these thoughts float like wasps in the air of social history.

Viv for those who do not know was a punk designer who walked the fine line tween street and couture when there was a line

Anyway being a hero for the Now Here year of 2016 takes more than words, it takes action and a New Story of who we are and what life means and why we cannot act like kids in toyland ny longer.

(I am working on that, feel free to chime in. Local activism can go beyond protest and create story that will help humans thrive in relationship to the whole life of a living sensual planet. This is an all connected story. We know enough now to go forward with science, art and LOVE)

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Friday, August 23, 2013

Punk Designer's Grande Dame Takes on Fracking

Photo borrowed from Dazed Digital a spiffy e zine of UK pop culture, fashion , more.

Vivienne Westwood stands up. I am thinking this woman is my newest hero. Thank you Ms Westwood for speaking up. I wish more people would wake to the dangers of business as usual. We are not on a planet that can endure the dis-ease t represents. Our economic system is narrowly focused and powerful, like a cancer it grows to dominate and control the host until the host is dead.

This is as unhealthy as we have ever been, the pattern is clear, the trajectory bleak. It is time to change the course.

Back in the day, Vivienne Westwood helped punk attire and the whole of the movement rise to the top of the charts. What started in England immigrated here and helped pave the way for Seattle's music renaissance.

This street up enterprising entrepreneurial force was colorful, political and wildly creative. It was also one of the last big global street uprisings as corporations took ever bigger bites out of the talent pools and forced the generic safe manipulated markets agenda down our collective throats..

Grunge (Seattle sound) was perhaps the last big movement, as small independent radio stations helped promote local talent before the FCC (USA taking out diversity) changed the rules and corporations got the little indy's out of their way. Check out Corporate FM

The No Fracking collage of signs photo from the Independent.

Why it Matters

What's the matter with more and more fashion choices?

It sounds good; we love to be able to pick the perfect outfit. You wear it once or twice and then ....what was the real cost here?

Your time to shop and the money spent, not so much ....go a little deeper and consider the fiber source, the dyes and chemicals used, the health toll on the workers, the energy to run the machines, the transporting carbons...and now it just takes up closet space. But so what? It's been going on for-almost-ever and you didn't make the rules.

In fact we are told this is what a "healthy" economy looks like.

You will recycle it after all, give it to charity or your sister. This is more transportation and more release of those greenhouse gases. We are using a lot of our personal energy and the resources of this planet to make, use and dump "trash" Some rags, remnants and tawdry bits will molder for eons in landfills, as nature's microbial actions are hampered by our normalized, everyday toxic lifestyles.

This goes beyond dumps as the breakdown cycle that nourishes the life of this planet has been sorely challenged by GMO crops, fertilizers, pesticides, antimicrobials..RIGHT!!. All the "living better through chemistry" propaganda after WWI and II- AKA how to sell your "garbage," is our legacy. Well no more, not on my (our) watch, we are seeing things quite differently.

As we now carry 298 toxins in our bods that weren't there in the 1930s the toxic residues of normal are haunting us more and more. Ironic, no? Advanced is merely a word.

Go to the So Whats the Point blog in February for the numbers.

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Extinctions ...So What?

Life evolves, some species survive some don't. We like to allude to Darwin's "natural selection" or Herbert Spencer's "survival of the fittest" because we are so good at reproducing and taking over this planet and justifying that side of our natures. The fact that we are wiping out the food chain by destroying habitat, fouling air and water and generally behaving like arrogant, tinkering idiots, is called business as usual. .....Well I and others are no longer buying that "sell."

We are wising up to the idea that we too, are dependent on these resources. We too, are physically an organic species and we really don't know what little extinction will be the start of the chain reaction that collapses the structure that we too, are dependent on.

Is this the price we are willing to pay for a pair of plastic shoes?

I say no, that despite the focus on the physical, we are more. We are heart and soul, mind, body, spirit. We are born of stars and we can and will leap over this world view based in old, untrue beliefs led by a science of isolation and religions of patriarchal, hierarchical constructs (your basic dominating Dad- with self reflective rights to rule). It is time to come together and heal. To transition into our fuller expectations and open the new possibilities. We are born with genius...let us help each other get to where we all can shine.