Steven Philip dishes about the John Gallianos and Vivienne Westwoods he's selling in the June 20th Passion for Fashion sale at Kerry Taylor Auctions.
I knew a lot of people that wore Vivienne Westwood, including myself. So I thought, I am going to do vintage Westwood. The Japanese market was craving so many things from her. I could buy it because people were growing up, they were having kids, everybody had moved on: the guy who once ran around with Spandau Ballet wearing a [Westwood World’s End] pirate sash didn’t want it anymore.
A few friends and I set up Rellik, where we concentrated on the best of British. It was very successful and I enjoyed that for 15 years. I left as I didn’t want to find other things to sell into other arenas just because they were in vogue, like ’50s dresses, so you’d have to sell those. It was going against everything I wanted to do. So I sold my share in Rellik, and then I moved to Brighton to put a studio together; I knew I could bring half my archives.
I came from Dundee in Scotland to London. Everybody thinks that Westwood was a London movement, but it was a British movement, even then. You’d have people coming from Manchester, from Liverpool, from Dundee, and you’d buy a piece and then go back home. I was going down to London now and again and enjoyed it, buying a piece of clothing. Once when I came down I thought, I’m going to stay here. London in the ’80s was amazing because I could touch the fashion.
I was looking at the catalog for the auction you’re part of, which has 147 lots from your collection. What amazed me was how many of those lots were complete looks. That’s particularly impressive, as so many people back in the day bought a piece here and a piece there – and then wore them to death.
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