Iconic Vivienne Westwood Documented 1992 Black Sheer Mesh Bodysuit Top
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Berlin, BE
The stunning 1992 Vivienne Westwood Boulle bodysuit. Iconic Vivienne Westwood Collectors Piece.
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1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop Black Toile Sheer Mesh Bodysuit Top
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Sheffield, GB
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Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop 1992 Boulle Sheer Mesh Black Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Rare and highly collectible Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop “Boulle” bodysuit from 1992.
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Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop 1992 Boulle Sheer Mesh Black Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Rare and highly collectible Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop “Boulle” bodysuit from 1992.
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Vivienne Westwood Vintage 1992 Sock Shop Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vivienne Westwood 1992 bodysuit. Features Orb embroidered on chest, short sleeves and round neckline.
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1990s English Blouses and Tops
1980s Vivienne Westwood Pink, Red & Blue Wonder Woman Ensemble
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Eccentric late 1980's Vivienne Westwood wonder woman bodysuit and pant ensemble.
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Vivienne Westwood Bodysuit and leggings ensemble with Orb print, ca. 1990-92
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
- High rise fitted leggings - Fitted bodysuit with long sleeves and scoop neck ca. 1990-1992
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Ca. 1992 Iconic Vivienne Westwood Cobalt Blue & Silver Printed Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Studio City, CA
Iconic Vivienne Westwood early 1990's cobalt blue & silver printed bodysuit.
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1990s British Bodysuits
Vivienne Westwood 1990's Fur Trimmed Peach Nude Unitard - Body Suit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Sheffield, GB
A fun 1993 Vivienne Westwood peach coloured bodysuit, featuring long sleeves with faux-fur trimmed cuffs, rounded collar line and button fasten crotch.
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1990s English Jumpsuits
Vivienne Westwood Sheer Bodysuit from 1992, Size S
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
-Absolutely stunning piece from Vivienne Westwood Sockshop Collaboration, dated on tag to 1992 -Has Boulle marquetry motif in velvet like decoration, motif also used in Vivienne West...
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1990s British Bodysuits
2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford Orgie Print Orange Bodysuit Top
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Excellent MATERIAL: Nylon/Spandex/Cotton COUNTRY MADE: Austria SIZE: M- ...
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Vivienne Westwood Sheer Bodysuit from 1992, Portrait Collection Motif, Size M
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
-Absolutely stunning piece from Vivienne Westwood Sockshop Collaboration, dated on tag to 1992 -Has Boulle marquetry motif in velvet like decoration, motif also used in Vivienne West...
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1990s British Bodysuits
F/W 1990 Vivienne Westwood Black Velvet & Gold "Portrait" Collection Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: F/W 1990 Vivienne Westwood "Portrait" collection Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Faint wear- no flaws! MATERIAL: Stretch velvet COUNTRY MA...
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1990s English Bodysuits
F/W 1990 Vivienne Westwood Velvet Black & Gold "Portrait" Collection Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: F/W 1990 Vivienne Westwood "Portrait" Collection Please contact us for more images or information CONDITION: Good- light wear, no flaws FABRIC: Acetate-Nylon-Spandex CO...
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1990s English Bodysuits
2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford Pearl Blue Orgie Print Bodysuit Top
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Good- no flaws! MATERIAL: Nylon- Spandex- Cotton COUNTRY MADE: Austria S...
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2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford "Poker" Card Black Sheer Bodysuit Top
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford- very rare "poker" style Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Good- this has never been worn and has been stored...
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1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop Putti Print Bodysuit Garter Belt & Tights
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Size: Medium- runs small w/ stretch
1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop Putti Print Bodysuit Garter Belt & Tights
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop- extremely rare to find one piece, we have never seen a full matching ensemble before this one.
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1990s Unknown Bodysuits
1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop Toile Sheer Mesh Blue Bodysuit Top
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 1992 Vivienne Westwood for Sock Shop Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Good- light basic wear- no flaws. MATERIAL: Nylon & Lycra COUNTRY ...
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1990s Unknown Bodysuits
Documented 1992 Vivienne Westwood Black Sheer Mesh L/S Bodysuit Top S
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: Documented 1992 Vivienne Westwood for Sock Shop Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Good- light wear, a few pin holes in crotch area- doesn't af...
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1990s Unknown Bodysuits
1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop Orb Print Bodysuit and Leggings Jumpsuit S
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Size: Small- fits XS/S
1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop Orb Print Bodysuit and Leggings Jumpsuit S
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 1992 Vivienne Westwood x Sock Shop Please contact for more information and/or photos.
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1990s Unknown Bodysuits
2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford "Poker" Black and Red Sheer Card Bodysuit Top
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Size: Small- fits XS to M
2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford "Poker" Black and Red Sheer Card Bodysuit Top
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 2004 Vivienne Westwood x Wolford - very rare "Poker" style Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Good- this has never been worn and has ...
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Early 2000s Austrian Bodysuits
Documented 1992 Vivienne Westwood Black Sheer Mesh L/S Bodysuit Top L Runs Small
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Size: Large, runs small w/ stretch
Documented 1992 Vivienne Westwood Black Sheer Mesh L/S Bodysuit Top L Runs Small
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: Documented 1992 Vivienne Westwood for Sockshop Please contact for more information and/or photos. CONDITION: Good- light wear- no holes or stains. MATERIAL: Nylon &...
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1990s Unknown Bodysuits
2003 Vivienne Westwood Plunging Black Bodysuit Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Yukon, OK
DESIGNER: 2003 Vivienne Westwood- has a built in bodysuit. Please contact for more information and/or photos.
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S/S 1992 Vivienne Westwood Pink Boulle Print Voided Velvet Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in North Hollywood, CA
S/S 1992 'Salon' Collection Vivienne Westwood pink 'Boulle' print voided velvet silk bodysuit.
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Vivienne Westwood Portrait Collection Bodysuit
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Portrait Collection Bodysuit by Vivienne Westwood A/W 1990 "Portrait Collection" Gold screen print neoclassical designs inspired by the Mirror with marquetry by Andre-Charles Boulle...
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1990s English Bodysuits
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Vivienne Westwood Bodysuit For Sale on 1stDibs
On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate vintage or contemporary vivienne westwood bodysuit for your needs in our varied inventory. Our collection includes a variety of colors, spanning black and more. Making the right choice when shopping for a vivienne westwood bodysuit may mean looking at versions that date from different eras — you can find early iterations from the 20th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 21st Century, both of which have proven very popular over the years. There have been many well-made iterations of this accessory over the years, but those made by Vivienne Westwood are often thought to be among the most stylish.
How Much is a Vivienne Westwood Bodysuit?
Prices for a vivienne westwood bodysuit can differ depending upon size, designer and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these accessories begin at $119 and can go as high as $8,371, while, on average they fetch $1,336.
Vivienne Westwood for sale on 1stDibs
For someone who regularly swatted away the industry that made her, audacious British fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood certainly knew her way around a garment. And she knew how to provoke. “I don’t follow fashion,” Westwood once told the New York Times. “I’ve never been interested in it.” Collectors are certainly interested in her work, and vintage Vivienne Westwood dresses, handbags, lingerie and jackets have become very desirable over the years.
Westwood was born Vivienne Isabel Swire in a village in Derbyshire, in central England, but moved to London as a teen. In the early 1960s, she began to make her own necklaces and other jewelry and met an artist, activist and entrepreneur named Malcolm McLaren. They became involved romantically and she made clothes for him in the style of the Teddy Boys — the city’s music-crazed, occasionally violent teenagers at the time who wore high-waisted trousers and tailored velvet blazers that drew on Edwardian-era fashions.
Westwood and McLaren opened a vintage shop on King’s Road in London in 1971. The flared denim and peasant blouses of the 1960s, then still popular with the “peace and love” set, didn’t hold any weight for Westwood. Instead, she was interested in provocative, edgy apparel. She repaired used clothing and endeavored to create bold new designs from scratch.
Together Westwood and McLaren sold older rock-and-roll records, customized T-shirts with antiestablishment slogans, biker jackets and snug trousers inspired by the Marlon Brando film The Wild One as well as bondage fetish wear. The shop, once called Let It Rock and then Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die before Sex became a more appropriate moniker, evolved into a youth mecca. The DIY garments — zippered tops, burnt tees emblazoned with anarchist messages — flew off the shelves. More notably, it brought punk to the masses.
Westwood was soon dressing the Sex Pistols, a band that McLaren managed, all the while bridging the gap between music and fashion in a manner that has reverberated throughout the industry for decades.
In 1981, the couple’s first fashion show marked the debut of their Pirate collection — a swashbuckler-themed line that sprang from Westwood’s research into Indigenous Americans and the “power garments” of the Louis XIV era. The collection’s ample proportions and cutting-edge tailoring countered punk’s geometry and tight latex fits as well as what rocker Adam Ant called the “Puritanism” that plagued England at the time. The Pirate collection’s enduring influence on the world of fashion as well as the theatrical work of designers such as John Galliano and Alexander McQueen is undeniable.
For the colorful corsets of her 1990 Portrait collection, Westwood drew on 18th-century oil paintings — her models donned the pearl necklaces that have become a social media star and a favorite of influencers and fashion lovers all over the world. For a jacket-and-shorts suit from her Fall/Winter 1996–97 Storm in a Teacup line, the designer used the extreme asymmetry of a tartan mash-up to confront, according to Westwood, “the horror of uniformity and minimalism.”
The self-taught Westwood enjoyed a rapid ascent in fashion, with British society embracing her looks and Vogue immortalizing them in its glossy pages. She garnered accolades for introducing corsets to the runway and dressed Kate Moss and Helena Bonham Carter. And an original Vivienne Westwood wedding dress is featured in 2008’s Sex and the City film.
The fires of political and environmental activism burned brightly for Westwood: She was a Greenpeace ambassador, having designed the organization’s official “Save the Arctic” logo; her clothing brand is committed to using recycled canvas and other eco-friendly materials in the production process; and in 2020, she protested the extradition of Julian Assange by suspending herself in a bird cage outside London’s Old Bailey court. But she will always be the grande dame of British design.
Find an extraordinary range of vintage Vivienne Westwood shirts, shoes, gowns and other items today on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right Lingerie for You
As the most intimate layer of clothing, lingerie has evolved over time from an object of modesty to one of sensuality. Some vintage and designer lingerie includes garments and accessories that are hard, such as corsets and structured bras, while other items are soft to the touch, including nightgowns and slips.
In the 18th century, European women commonly wore whalebone corsets to create the look of an hourglass figure. Corsets were a standard part of women’s fashion into the 19th century. In 1914, Caresse Crosby filed a patent for the first modern bra, made by sewing two handkerchiefs together with ribbon ties. By the 1920s, the corset fell out of fashion in North America and Europe, and loose silhouettes and silky slips became mainstream.
As fashion returned to feminine forms in the 1930s, so did lingerie, with girdles and minimal bras. During World War II, bras were adapted to the rationing of materials like nylon and metal. In the postwar era, women had more lingerie choices than ever before, with inventions including the strapless bra.
In the 1950s, lingerie became more glamorous, matching the trends led by legendary French couturier Christian Dior and his “New Look,” a collection that introduced a new feminine silhouette of extravagant elegance upon its postwar debut. Just as the evolution of women’s swimwear over time reflected changing aesthetic taste as well as social upheaval, shifts in the design of lingerie owed to changing perspectives toward sex and style trends. Mid-century pinup models like Bettie Page transformed the undergarments market forever with a new desire for sexy lingerie. It would lead to the founding of Victoria’s Secret by Roy and Gaye Raymond in 1977.
In the late 1980s, performers like Madonna and Selena wore bustiers as outerwear, a trend that continued through the 1990s and early 2000s. With the broadcasting of the Victoria's Secret fashion show beginning in 1995, everyday style also changed. Lingerie was no longer expected to be hidden away.
On 1stDibs, find a range of alluring vintage and designer lingerie, including black bodysuits, black bralettes, corsets and more by designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Azzedine Alaïa and Versace.
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