In the 1980s, Westwood developed ethnic cutting techniques which are based on rectangles. She had an idea she knew would work, knocked it up in rough and in small scale and tried it out on a little dummy. Through various adjustments and fittings she arrived at a full scale finished garment in the right fabric. Clothes always had a dynamic with the body. She continued to mix this in with historical cuts at that important point in her career. Then, Westwood’s heros changed from punks and ragamuffins to ‘Tatler’ girls wearing clothes that parodied the upper class. A chance encounter inspired one of her most important and influential collections, the Harris Tweed collection of autumn/winter 1987. “My whole idea for this collection was stolen
