Anti-fracking is Westwood’s protest baby) – but Westwood is wise enough to know that an audience with the prime minister, even if it is under the cloak of a London fashion week blowout, is not to be shirked at. Friendship seems unlikely – the two have differing positions on fracking (May is for it, within reason. Two months later, however, she appeared at the annual Number 10 London Fashion Week reception wearing a slogan T-shirt “Theresa Talk Vivienne”. A month later the designer told the Today programme: “Do I mind if Theresa May wears my clothes? No, but I certainly don’t admire her for anything. Dame Vivienne Westwood herself was not thrilled. Photograph: REX/Ray Tangįirst worn to the 2013 Conservative conference, where she raised some divisive thoughts on free movement, its most high-profile outing was at the launch of her party leadership bid last June. Theresa May at the Conservative Party Annual Conference in 2013.
Nice try, May, but actually the media has been pretty diverted by the suit. So did she wear it for luck, or was it simply the sensible option when announcing a swift, clean separation from the EU? Her latest purchase ( an Amanda Wakeley zip-up skirt, unzipped four inches, last worn in November) might have diverted the media’s attention from this long-awaited speech.
If yesterday’s rhetoric focused on “keeping the union together”, wearing Black Watch tartan was a palpable nod towards Scotland, but one feels that’s where this unity ends. Second, the suit’s repetition is delivering a subliminal visual message: May’s role in carrying out the mandate of the referendum to see Brexit through to the bitter end, has not and will not change.
In leaving the single market and implementing all the barriers regarding trade and movement that that had previously been lowered by being part of the EU, the theme of Them vs Us has never been more keenly felt than via a £1,405 price-tag. The prime minister, who will also appear in Vogue the same month she intends to pull the trigger on Article 50, understands the importance of delivering a message in keeping with what you’re trying to relay to the public (note, those bitter chocolate leather trousers and accusations of being “out of touch”). The Russell & Bromley crystal-studded brogues cost £215. What does it mean that May has adopted the tropes of punk rock in order to make Britain Isolationist Again? The semiotic overtones between punk and May’s agenda couldn’t be further apart.
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