Upside-down jackets, punk gestures — Vivienne Westwood is still present in fashion.
“Fashion is life-enhancing. And I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.”
So said Vivienne Westwood, the gleefully subversive British designer who died in December at age 81. And so quoted Marc Jacobs, the erstwhile favorite fashion son of New York, as the epigraph for his latest show, which was a memorial of sorts not just to the influence of Ms. Westwood but also to the power and promise of great clothes. Heck, maybe to his part in the whole fashion system itself.
Titled “Heroes,” it was held in the hushed, empty space of the Park
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