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Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood: An Original 'Destroy' muslin shirt, 1980, image 1
Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood: An Original 'Destroy' muslin shirt, 1980, image 2
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Lot 88

Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood: An Original 'Destroy' muslin shirt,
1980,

Ending from 3 December 2025, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, Knightsbridge

£800 - £1,000

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Malcolm McLaren & Vivienne Westwood: An Original 'Destroy' muslin shirt,

1980,
in white muslin, front with black, red and green print, D ring to each shoulder and D ring and dog-clip to each long sleeve, with letter of provenance from the vendor,

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Provenance:
Purchased by the vendor from Seditionaries in their last week they were open in September 1980.

The 'Destroy' artwork, designed in early 1977, aptly reflects Malcolm's statement that 'You have to destroy in order to create'. The imagery is powerful, incorporating as it does the swastika, the embodiment of evil and a provocative symbol, a Jamie Reid drawing of a decapitated head of the Queen, and Christ on the cross taken from one of Malcolm's favourite artworks, Matthias Grunewald's 16th century Isenheim Altarpiece, but here it is heretically inverted. Also used were lyrics from the Sex Pistols' Anarchy In The UK.

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