Fashion and Beauty 22nd July 2025 by Stellar Magazine

Why Vivienne Westwood Has Become the Top Choice for 365 Party Girls

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Pop star and cultural icon Charli xcx — who rose to massive fame last summer with her experimental clubbing album Brat — tied the knot last Saturday with George Daniel, drummer of The 1975.

Leaving the Art Deco-style Hackney Town Hall in London, the newlyweds were snapped by paparazzi in a sweet moment that quickly spread online. Naturally, the excitement wasn’t just about the wedding itself — all eyes were also on Charli’s bridal look.

Many fans were shocked by her choice of wedding dress, expecting something wild, loud, and Brat-coded. But here at Stellar, we weren’t surprised at all — and here’s why.

Charli, like many pop stars before her — think Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato — chose her wedding dress from the label of fashion’s anarchist idealist and godmother of punk, Vivienne Westwood. Known for designs that have shifted both fashion and bridalwear from tradition to the avant-garde, Westwood feels like an obvious bratty yet elegant match.

Vivienne Westwood’s designs — all deconstruction, asymmetry, draped silk, and daring silhouettes — didn’t just rewrite the rules of bridalwear; they tore up the old script entirely. Gone were the stiff bodices, the heavy skirts, the quiet compliance of tradition. In their place: movement, personality, rebellion.

Westwood gave women what society had denied for so long — the right to choose how they show up at the altar. No longer confined by Victorian rigidity, brides could finally wear something that felt like them. So it’s little wonder Charli walked out in a Westwood original — a look that didn’t just fit her body, but matched the sharp, unruly spirit that’s always set her apart.

By choosing the Nova Cora Mini Dress in pearl white — with its soft sweetheart neckline, draped corseted bodice, and Cocotte skirt that falls elegantly from a Basque waist and wraps around the hips to form a subtle train — Charli also tips her veil to tradition.

In her own way, she nods to the institution of marriage itself, the centuries-old ritual now stamped with a fresh, rebellious twist. Because this isn’t just a wedding — it’s the official certification of “Charli and George fucking for life” love.

From this stems another, more political reason why so many celebrities gravitate toward Vivienne Westwood designs: a reimagining of modern intimacy. Her bridalwear opens up space for new perspectives on love, partnership, and commitment — reflecting the values, confessions, and longings that couples like Charli and George inhabit.

 

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orian-era wedding dress symbolised confinement — layers upon layers of fabric that mirrored a woman’s later entrapment in domesticity — Westwood’s designs offer the opposite. Marriage, in her world, isn’t about rigidity or social convention.

It’s about romantic freedom — a beautiful, expressive celebration of connection. As Charli told Harper’s Bazaar about her wedding plans: “We just want to be together forever and have a party with our friends.”

The last thing worth mentioning is why Charli’s bridal look, with its sensibility of gothic romanticism, isn’t a surprising choice for us, because it is the celebration of the female body in all its unapologetic glory. Once again, instead of burying women’s bodies beneath several stones worth of lace and outdated modesty, Westwood chooses to reveal them — not crudely, but with tenderness and intention.

Her designs honour the body through short hems, off-shoulder necklines, just like the 365 pop star’s dress. It’s bold, but never vulgar.

And it’s political, too. Andreas Kronthaler — Westwood’s husband and now Creative Director, who continues her legacy of blending past, present, and future into a delicious potpourri of couture rebellion — said in an interview that the reason so many women are drawn to Vivienne Westwood isn’t just because it breaks the rules but because “she stands for women, strength, power, and courage.”

Words by Dana Shmyha