14 DAY TRIAL // Pamela Anderson, the unlikely, pneumatic muse of eccentric fashion designer Vivienne Westwood, suffered one extremely embarrassing wardrobe malfunction as she joined the designer on stage at Paris Fashion Week. The black gown that Pamela was wearing gave way, exposing her chest, just as she was waiving and smiling at the thrilled audience, the Daily Mail reports.
Although a bit taken aback by the incident, Pamela did not seem too upset about the malfunction, the same media outlet informs, continuing to smile to photographers and the audience as if nothing had happened, while covering herself. Whereas some speculate that she might have done it on purpose to generate more media attention for Vivienne Westwood’s clothing line that must have surely felt the recession that is affecting the fashion industry worldwide, insiders are vouching it was a genuine accident.
Just recently, Westwood unveiled the first promo shots for her latest collection, starring Pamela Anderson herself who, this way, was elevated from a simple glamour model to the status of “art,” as the former “Baywatch” star said herself. Other than talk of this, the collection just displayed in Paris was a massive success, as the aforementioned source informs. Marking a shift towards accessibility and wearability, the line makes it possible and encourages women to mix n’match, thus making the most of every outfit, as the designer herself underlined.
“Apart from the tulle extravaganza, Westwood included a range of dresses and jackets that could easily be worn to the office, continuing the trend toward wearable, sellable pieces seen in New York and Milan. Asymmetric wrap dresses and tunics in sea green and greyish blue, a black pinstripe dress and draped tops were meant to give shoppers the option to buy one special piece and combine it with whatever they had in their wardrobe.” the Mail writes in a short review of the collection.
At the same time, Westwood vouches that sales for her clothes have not been affected in any way by the economic downturn, but only because she has learned to adapt to the demands of her customers.