VIVIENNE WESTWOOD - ANGLOMANIA + MELISSA
Vivienne Westwood has created two styles through her Anglomania collection exclusively for melissa. Westwood's classic Mary Jane was originally made out of leather and launched in her winter '00 'Summertime' collection and has been reborn in plastic. In addition, as Westwood lends her Anglomania design to melissa ... melissa returns in kind with Westwood doing her own take on the cult melissa 'ultragirl' pump.
Vivienne Westwood's trademark practicality is a faultless match for melissa's injected thermoplastic. "This technique guarantees perfect shapes without interweaves as we see in fabrics ..." says the designer herself. In Anglomania Vivienne Westwood's quintessentially English and unabashed historicism loans itself neatly to her creations for melissa's collection. Her designs are unquestionably British, undeniably feminine and fearlessly non-conformist. melissa renowned for its innovation and boldness seems the ideal fit for this enviable brand extension. Indeed, as Westwood once likened fashion to a baby that she had picked up and never put down melissa is precisely that for many devotees.
Westwood is an institution, now the esteemed matriarch counts the melissa brand as a part of her monarchy.