Vivienne Westwood

"The most amazing thing about this partnership was to be able to create
modern products, with very high quality, for affordable prices"

For more than three decades Vivienne Westwood has forged her way into the hearts, minds and purses of fashionistas across the globe.  Now she has found a place in melissa's winter '08 collection.

Westwood has created two models through her Anglomania brand exclusively for melissa.  Westwood's classic Mary Jane originally made out of leather and launched in her winter '00 collection 'Summertime' has been re-birthed in plastic.  In addition, as Westwood lends her Anglomania design to melissa ... melissa returns in kind with Westwood doing her own take on the cult melissa 'ultragirl' slipper.

Westwood's trademark practicality is a faultless match for melissa's injected thermoplastic.  "This technique guarantees perfect shapes without interweaves as we see in fabrics ..." says the designer herself.  In Anglomania all of Westwood's quintessential Englishness and unabashed historicism loans itself neatly to her creations for melissa's collection.  Her designs are unquestionably British, undeniably feminine and fearlessly non-conformist.  melissa renowned for its innovation and boldness seems the ideal fit for this enviable brand extension.  Indeed, as Westwood once likened fashion to a baby that she had picked up and never put down melissa is precisely that for many devotees.

Westwood is an institution, now the esteemed matriarch counts the melissa brand as a part of her monarchy.