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Vivienne Westwood Silk Gown

Vivienne Westwood Graphite Blue Silk corset Cocktail Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Expertly designed and beautifully crafted, the Vivienne Westwood Granite Silk corset Cocktail Dress
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1990s Cocktail Dresses

Vivienne Westwood 2012 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Corseted Draped Silk Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vintage Vivienne Westwood Runway 2012 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Corseted Draped Silk Dress. Dress
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2010s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Corseted Draped Silk Dress, 2012
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
gown made from silk, featuring an enlarged print of an antique Union Jack flag ▪ Distinctive Westwood
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2010s English Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood cow print nude silk corseted off shoulder dress, ss 1999
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vivienne Westwood cow print nude and black silk mid-length evening dress with built-in corset and
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1990s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood purple silk taffeta mermaid skirt and corset top, c. 1997
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vivienne Westwood Couture purple silk taffeta evening ensemble. High waisted hip hugging mermaid
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1990s Italian Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Couture navy striped silk corset and skirt set, ss 1998
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
▪ Vivienne Westwood Couture navy striped chiffon evening two piece ▪ 100% Silk ▪ Off-shoulder
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1990s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Pale Blue Silk Taffeta and Tulle Couture Bridal Dress, FW 2005
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
This Vivienne Westwood bridal couture dress is crafted from pale blue silk taffeta, featuring an
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Early 2000s French Evening Dresses and Gowns

Westwood Vintage Runway 2012 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Corseted Draped Silk Gown
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vintage Vivienne Westwood Runway 2012 Queen's Diamond Jubilee Corseted Draped Silk Dress. Dress
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2010s English Evening Dresses and Gowns

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Vivienne Westwood Bronze Silk Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Xiamen, Fujian
Sleeveless, knee length cocktail dress in bias cut bronze silk.
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21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Cocktail Dresses

S/S 1999 Vivienne Westwood Red Label Hot Pink Silk Gown with Front Ties
By Vivienne Westwood, RED LABEL by VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
Located in North Hollywood, CA
S/S 1999 Vivienne Westwood 'Red Label' hot pink silk gown with adjustable front ribbon ties. Halter
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1990s Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Cream Silk Gown, Circa 2000
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a gorgeous cream silk gown by Vivienne Westwood, from 2000. The gown has a constructed
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21st Century and Contemporary English Contemporary Evening Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Vintage Polka Dot Silk Evening Gown Spring/Summer 1996
By Vivienne Westwood Gold Label
Located in Saint Petersburg, FL
Vivienne Westwood Vintage Archive Polka Dot Silk Gold Label Evening Gown Spring/Summer 1996 Size
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1990s British Evening Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Couture black silk corset and trained skirt evening set
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vivienne Westwood Couture black silk off shoulder draped corset and fishtail trained skirt c
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1990s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood gunmetal grey silk taffeta draped evening dress, fw 2001
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vivienne Westwood gunmetal grey silk taffeta strapless evening dress with ruched seams, draped
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Early 2000s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood orange silk chiffon blouse and wrap skirt ensemble, ss 1998
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Vivienne Westwood striped orange silk chiffon evening ensemble. Cropped wrap blouse with mouton
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1990s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood pink silk taffeta corset and bustled maxi skirt, fw 1996
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
▪ Vivienne Westwood pink silk taffeta corset and skirt set ▪ Off-shoulder corset with draped
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1990s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

VIVIENNE WESTWOOD Size 8 Black & White Marbled Silk Strapless Cocktail Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in San Francisco, CA
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD cocktail dress comes in a black & white marbled silk featuring a strapless corset
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Cocktail Dresses

Vivienne Westwood cream silk corset and draped skirt wedding ensemble, c. 1999
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in London, GB
Wedding ensemble Corset paired with a matching skirt which ties with ribbon to drape the fabric c. 1999
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1990s British Evening Dresses and Gowns

Agent Provocateur Black Japanese Style Dressing Gown Dress Silk Kimono Robe
By Vivienne Westwood, Agent Provocateur
Located in San Diego, CA
Sexy, yet classy limited edition VIVIENNE WESTWOOD for AGENT PROVOCATEUR black / multi colored silk
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21st Century and Contemporary French Robes

Vivienne Westwood Special Couture Silk Corset Gown Evening 2pc Gold Label 10/12
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Port Saint Lucie, FL
This iconic evening gown ensemble was made by Vivienne Westwood for her Special Gold Label Couture
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1990s British Evening Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Black Silk Corset Gown 2pc Special Couture Gold Label 10/12
By Vivienne Westwood Gold Label, Vivienne Westwood
Located in Port Saint Lucie, FL
This iconic evening gown ensemble was made by Vivienne Westwood for her Special Gold Label Couture
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1990s British Evening Gowns

S/S 2014 Vivienne Westwood White Strapless Silk Drape Gown
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in North Hollywood, CA
S/S 2014 Vivienne Westwood by Andreas Kronthaler white silk strapless drape corset gown. Features
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2010s Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Silk Evening Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Hong Kong, Hong Kong
A classical Vivienne Westwood formal dress in dashing emerald green - Vivienne Westwood, the Grande
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21st Century and Contemporary Evening Dresses and Gowns

Vivienne Westwood Gold Label lilac silk gown, Sz 10
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Berlin, DE
Dress has all the characteristics of a Westwood dress, designed with pure fantasy and shape in mind
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21st Century and Contemporary English Ball Gowns

S/S 1999 Vivienne Westwood Red Label White Silk Gown with Front Ties
By RED LABEL by VIVIENNE WESTWOOD, Vivienne Westwood
Located in North Hollywood, CA
S/S 1999 Vivienne Westwood 'Red Label' white silk gown with adjustable front ribbon ties. Halter
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1990s Evening Dresses and Gowns

1990's Vivienne Westwood Striped Silk Asymmetric Corset Sculpted Cocktail Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Vivienne Westwood is one of the most influential and recognizable British designers of the past 20
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1990s Italian Cocktail Dresses

Vivienne Westwood Gold Label Silk Corseted Strapless Cocotte Dress
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Cloverdale, CA
Vivienne Westwood Gold Label strapless silvery blue Cocette dress. Full inner corset, and diagonal
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Early 2000s British Cocktail Dresses

Vivienne Westwood Gold Label Orange "Dalma" Silk Satin Evening Dress NWT UK12
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Cloverdale, CA
Vivienne Westwood Gold Label Orange "Dalma" Silk Satin Evening Dress. Boned corset with floor
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2010s British Evening Dresses

Vivienne Westwood Red Label Silk Georgette Lace Pattern Cocktail Dress NWT
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Cloverdale, CA
Vivienne Westwood Red Label Silk Georgette Lace Pattern Cocktail Dress New with Tags This is
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2010s British Cocktail Dresses

Vivienne Westwood Couture Silk Dress with Built-In Sporty Corset circa 1990s
By Vivienne Westwood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a dress by Vivienne Westwood. It features a structured inner bustier that zips in back and
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21st Century and Contemporary Cocktail Dresses

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By Missoni
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By Gianni Versace
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By Chanel
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Classic CHANEL signature two-pieces bikini swimsuit Beautiful cut Two pieces Fully lined Comes brandnew with tags Made in France Size 36 Complete in the origi...
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Vivienne Westwood Silk Gown For Sale on 1stDibs

Find the exact vintage or contemporary vivienne westwood silk gown you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. Many people prefer black, but fashion is all about individuality — you can find beige and more options on these pages. If you’re looking for a vivienne westwood silk gown from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 20th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century.

How Much is a Vivienne Westwood Silk Gown?

The price for a vivienne westwood silk gown starts at $2,195 and tops out at $24,267, and on average, selling for $9,535.

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 Evening-dresses for You

With entire museum exhibitions dedicated to examining fashion designers and their creations, we’re finally recognizing that costuming is art. Evening dresses over time have conveyed specific statements about social class, position and beliefs. Fashion is a powerful means of self-expression, and sophisticated vintage evening dresses and gowns by our favorite couturier play no small role in making us feel wonderful but, perhaps more importantly, making us feel like ourselves.

In the 16th century, dresses and gowns were so important that England's Queen Elizabeth I defined rules about what dresses women could wear — guidance included long skirts and fitted bodices. Forward-thinking designers have responded to this history.

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel reimagined traditionally masculine garments for feminine shapes, and her elegant evening dresses and gowns promoted comfort and grace in women’s wear that had been dominated in the previous century by layers of fabric. Christian Dior's gowns celebrated luxury and femininity in the late 1940s — and gave to women the gift of glamour they’d lost in the miserable years of the war. French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent introduced innovative and highly coveted dress designs in the 1960s while at the same time challenging sexist stereotypes about which members of society could wear tuxedos.

Works by unconventional British designer John Galliano — featured in houses like Givenchy and Dior — redefined limits that dressmakers faced in terms of material, construction and vision during the late 20th century. From his embroidered absinthe-green Oscars gown for actress Nicole Kidman to the iconic sleeveless Dior newspaper dress that Sex and the City’s Carrie Bradshaw made famous, Galliano’s intricate and multifaceted work is reliably collectible and newsworthy

Today’s designers target an increasingly broad audience with their boundary-crossing work, and their tendency to play off of each other’s ideas means that every walk down the runway is also a walk through an entire history of fashion design and dress craftsmanship.

Whether you gravitate toward backless maxi dresses or silk charmeuse gowns by Alexander McQueen or embellished, ruffled floral-print designs by Chloe or Versace, there is an extraordinary collection of vintage and designer evening dresses and gowns waiting for you on 1stDibs.

Questions About Vivienne Westwood
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Vivienne Westwood is a British fashion designer who entered the scene in 1971 and quickly grew in popularity. She is known for being outspoken, edgy and unconventional. Her designs and cutting-edge style in the 1970s shaped the look of the punk rock movement, taking runway and streetwear fashion in a different direction. You’ll find a large collection of Vivienne Westwood from many of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Vivienne Westwood’s style has been described as punk, new wave, new romantic and more. She was the embodiment of the punk fashion movement in the 1970s, inspiring the likes of the Sex Pistols. You can find vintage and contemporary Vivienne Westwood bags, clothing and shoes from some of the world’s top boutiques on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    To open your Vivienne Westwood watch, you need a special watch tool to take the case back off. To avoid potentially damaging your luxury timepiece, a professional watchmaker can make any fixes you need. On 1stDibs, you can find vintage and contemporary Vivienne Westwood designs from some of the top boutiques around the world.
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Herald Group subsidiary Zeon Limited is responsible for manufacturing, marketing and distributing watches under the Vivienne Westwood brand. This agreement began in 2011 when the brand rolled out its watch line. Zeon Limited manufactures watches for many different brands. It is the UK’s largest distributor and importer of timepieces. Shop a collection of vintage and new Vivienne Westwood bags, clothing and accessories from some of the world’s top boutiques on 1stDibs.