Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, mother of the punk aesthetic, visiting the Uffizi

Everything can be said about fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, the “mother” of thepunk aesthetic, except that she is not passionate about art: if, however, her penchant for contemporary art was well known (think, for example, of the #MirrorTheWorld project, a digital campaign to promote culture through art, or recently of the Michele Chiossi exhibition that Westwood hosted in her Milan boutique ), less well known was her penchant for ancient art, and so the designer, these days in Florence for commitments, wanted to carve out time for a visit to the Uffizi.

Vivienne Westwood made a surprise appearance at the museum this morning, and greeting her and accompanying her to discover the new rooms of 16th-century painting was director Eike Schmidt himself. The fashion designer, in particular, was impressed by the works and the layouts of the spaces dedicated to Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino, Pontormo and Veronese, Raphael and Michelangelo, devoting special attention not only to the exceptional chromatics of the works but also to the sumptuous frames of these masterpieces. Vivienne Westwood lingered especially in front of the sensual Venus of Urbino and the very elegant velvet draperies of Bronzino’s portrait of Eleonora da Toledo, which in addition to being a masterpiece of portraiture of all time is also a... hymn to fashion.

Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, mother of the punk aesthetic, visiting the Uffizi

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