Originally published Published on: Jun 16, 2010
Danish/ Parisian designer, Vanessa Bruno, has finally decided to move west to the US!! Vanessa Bruno is Parisian style in a nutshell …. simple, tailored, modern, feminine, and wearable clothes for the fille chic ! (If I were her, I would have started with NYC, because I personally feel that New Yorkers would get her style more and be better customers, HOWEVER, I love her designs (have been a fan for years) and am excited to shop !) In Europe, one of Vanessa’s popular Cabas totes sells somewhere every 30 minutes…and has blog posts titled, “Stalking Vanessa Bruno“. The Store is set to open August 5th, with a fancy opening in October.
* This tote is experiencing a frenzy sort of like the Herve Chapelier or Longchamp craze that went on in Paris a bit ago.
....and yes, that is Lou Dillon on the front wall, as she is the face of Vanessa Bruno... +10 points to VB for getting L!
Obsessed with this video, aren’t you?
The deets on Vanessa
- Raised in Paris
- Mother was a super model and father owned fashion house Emmanuelle Kahnh
- Started off as a model
- Started career working with French RTW house Dorothee Bis
- Launched Vanessa Bruno at the age of 24, in 1996
- Jewelry and purses have been added to CV of the Vanessa Bruno line
- Vanessa has a diffusion line called Vanessa Bruno Athe
- Shows in Paris fashion week
- Has boutiques in Kuwait, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, France, and Australia
I wrote about Vivienne Westwood’s future store on January 9th, but I decided to include it in with the new Vanessa Bruno post 
Famed eccentric fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood, is opening a store on Melrose, near Sweet Lady Jane tea house. This was interesting to me because more than half of the stores on Melrose, east of La Cinega are closing, empty, or under construction. It is very brave of Westwood to open an expensive store in this economy, and on Melrose. Mrs. Westwood has won the British Fashion Council Award for best designer three times! I absolutely LOVE Vivienne Westwood, and all that she stands for, so I am looking very forward for this store to open.
The deets on Vivienne
- 68 years old, born April 8th, 1941
- Born in Tintwistle, England
- Taught at a primany school in North London
- Went to the University of Westminster and Middlesex University
- Married to Derek Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler
- Dated Malcolm McLaren, manager of The Sex Pistols, and had Joseph Corre, owner of Agent Provacateur with him
- Has 4 kids
- Malcolm opened a shop at 430 King’s Road called Let It Rock (also known as Sex, Too Fast To Live Too Young To Die, Seditionaries).
- It was at this time Westwood began to sell her crazy designs.
- Westwood still owns this store, called Worlds End, where she sells her lower priced line, Anglomania.
- The English Punk style became popular when the Sex Pistols wore clothes from Westwood and McLaren’s shop at their first concert.
- This “punk style” included bondage gear, safety pins, razor blades, bicycle or lavatory chains on clothing and spiked dog collars for jewelry, as well as outrageous make-up and hair
- Vivienne has 5 stores worldwide
- Carrie’s wedding dress from the Sex in the City movie was made by Westwood.
- Orange-ish hair is her trademark look
- Mrs. Westwood is also a major major political activist
- Has arrived to get her OBE (Order of the British Empire award) knickerless, twice !
