Fashion Icon Enlists Kiddies

Designer Westwood collaborates with 7-year-olds for Paris show
By Ambreen Ali,  Newser Staff
Posted Feb 28, 2008 3:12 PM CST
Fashion Icon Enlists Kiddies
Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood takes to the catwalk after her Fall-Winter 2008-2009 ready-to-wear collection presented in Paris. Her jacket was painted by 7-year-old eco-warriors she enlisted to draw bugs, plants, and snakes.   (Associated Press)

Children proved the future indeed for Vivienne Westwood at this year's Paris Fashion Week, with the British designer enlisting three dozen 7-year-olds to help with her latest collection. The British schoolkids painted bugs, plants, and snakes on Westwood’s eco-minded show "Chaos Point," which took to the runway Monday, Reuters reports.

No child labor here, though—the kids went looking for Westwood, writing her after learning she was a "great artist" in class. Their hearts and pink butterflies met with Westwood's certainly grown-up vision for the show: freedom fighters warding off ecological disaster. Politics have long found their way into Westwood's work, which famously trumpeted the slogan "I am not a terrorist" in 2005. (More fashion stories.)

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