Vivienne Westwood has become the latest designer to create an adornment for the special-edition Chivas 18 bottle, illustrating her unparalleled reputation for design excellence and pattern-cutting expertise.
Each whisky bottle is luxuriously enveloped in a silk three-piece coat. With the current design of the Union Flag dating back to 1801 and the Chivas Brothers’ roots also being traced back to this iconic year, the distinctive bottle proudly appears cloaked in Westwood’s Union Jack print, as first seen in a Gold Label collection in Paris.
Digitally printed on woven tie silk twill, the coat incorporates both masculinity and elegance with four precision hand-cut pieces laden with delicate gold embroidery. All silk panels are fully lined, meticulously padded and finished with silk taffeta bias binding.
The design of the coat has been carefully moulded to fit the shape of the bottle and is held together with white gold, orb-embossed studs.
Recreating the detail used on all Vivienne Westwood accessories, each jacket is decorated with a complementing blue and gold flash bearing the iconic Vivienne Westwood orb. In addition, each coat displays the bottle’s unique limited edition number on the bottom panel as a sign of authenticity.
Chivas Regal 18 Year Old by Vivienne Westwood has been released as a limited edition with only 2,500 bottles available internationally. Priced from $495 (R3,360) duty free, the bottles are the third collaboration between Chivas Regal and the fashion world, having previously worked with designers Alexander McQueen and Christian Lacroix.
More information: www.chivas.com and www.viviennewestwood.com
