Vivienne Westwood vintage vegan-leather bondage dress, circa early 2000s

From the early-00s era — a moment when Westwood was folding her punk past into sleeker, body-skimming silhouettes — this vegan-leather dress is built on the friction between restraint & curve. The bodice reads like a stripped-down corset, while broad straps slip through a crosshatched framework down the torso, tightened by a chrome buckle that reflects her long-standing glance toward fetish vocabulary. It echoes the period when Westwood framed bondage elements as a form of defiance rather than spectacle; as she told The Guardian in 2002, she used these details to “show how clothes can amplify the body’s sense of strength.” Worn w/ or without the straps, this archival dress - from the canons of Anglomania - snatches the waist, giving you demure or dominatrix in true vintage Westwood form. Size on tag: 40IT (approx US 4–6) Measurement estimates avail upon request. Condition: Very good vintage condition; minor surface creasing consistent w/ early-2000s vegan-leather blends.