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Vivienne Westwood highlights climate change on LFW Festival tote

Lauretta Roberts
20 January 2017

Dame Vivienne Westwood has been revealed as the designer of this year's official London Fashion Week Festival tote bag and has used the opportunity to highlight the threat posed by climate change.

Made from 100% organic cotton, the bag was inspired by Westwood's AW17 collection entitled ‘Ecotricity’, which she showed at London Fashion Week Men's earlier this month.

It features Westwood’s representation of NASA's projection of the effect of climate change on the world should the earth’s temperature rise by five degrees or more. Westwood's proposed solution to this problem is to switch to green energy or Ecotricity.

Vivienne Westwood

Dame Vivenne's LFW Festival tote bag

The limited edition totes will be available for purchase at London Fashion Week Festival for £20 each, of which 50% of the profit will be donated to Westwood’s choice of charity, Fuel Poverty Action, which works with pensioners’ groups, tenants’ associations and others who provide practical aid in the form of blankets, draft-proofing, as well as helping people to get their debts written off.

"Global warming is at the tipping point. If we go past it, we can’t stop it. All the methane kicks in. We’re there right now. Stop Climate Change. All our friends are going to switch to green energy – Ecotricity - and I am happy to design a tote that communicates this important message," Westwood said of the project.

London Fashion Week Festival (formally known as London Fashion Weekend) has moved venues and will now take place at The Store Studios, 180 Strand along with the British Fashion Council’s other bi-annual events, London Fashion Week and London Fashion Week Men’s.

The consumer-facing event takes place after London Fashion Week from 23-26 February and includes designer catwalk shows, a schedule of industry talks, shopping emporiums and champagne bars. Ticket packages include: Bronze (from £20), Silver (from £45), Gold (from £60), LUXE (£145) and LUXE Premium (£200).

Images: British Fashion Council

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