The wild, racy nature of Vivienne Westwood's collections are taken down a notch in her recent musical debut. The Westwood 'Catwalk Breakdown' album is as romantic and unexpected as her S/S 09 collection. The classic lines of Billy Fury's 'Last Night was made for Love' are intertwined with the haunting melodies of Tchaikovsky's 'Waltz of the Flowers' and the classic harmony of Offenbach.
As Vivienne Westwood told www.vogue.com:
“Sometimes (the) music can just be sexy, it can let you relax, look at the clothes, put people into a fantastic mood. Then it might just have to swing back and lift you up to the final triumph of the fashion show.”
All too often the carefully selected pieces that the designers use for their collections are superceded by the clothes that they provide the soundtrack for. This album allows you to delight in the music without interuption. The CD sleeve is of course, classically Westwood where the disc nestles neatly between a quintessentailly Westwood pair of heaving bosoms and the iconic 'Campbell' platforms on the cover, it is clear that this album is a classic audio representation of Westwood's fashion in all it's audible glory. If that's not enough to convince then just buy it simply for Mae West's fantastically sassy 'Great balls of Fire' cover version. It's a perfect chance to own a piece of Westwood for under £15, what are you waiting for?
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