Milan Fashion Week Exclusive - Vivienne Westwood F/W 2013

Sunday and it was time for Via Melegari and Vivienne's Westwood Show. We love that place, so we were on time. Vivienne is the best designer for those loving to take risks in fashion and those who are not afraid to be different. Crazy looking fashionistas, editors, bloggers and press took their places and Gentlemans Diary was again in the front row. British designer Vivienne Westwood is never at a loss to speak her mind through fashion. She chooses the Milan runway as her megaphone to call for climate revolution. ''Climate revolution is the only means toward a sound economy. When the general public massively switches on to this fact we will win," she said in her fashion notes, which accompanied her Winter 2014 Menswear Collection. Models with puffed lips and painted black eyes looked like they had just come from fighting the designer's battle, as they marched down the runway in low-crotched pants, a long-tailed morning coat, shiny orange fluorescent lace-ups and an oversized, wide-brimmed felt hat. Throughout the collection, revolutionary slogans calling for an end to the climate crisis were printed on white T-shirts. While asking others to get their economic priorities straight, Westwood made her own contribution to the cause. A special edition bag, produced in Kenya through the United Nations International Trade Center Ethical Fashion Program, was featured in the show. Gentlemans Diary can only support that effort and creativity by Vivienne.

Photos: Gentlemans Diary.