“She had a flair for people.” When the Austrian costume expert and entrepreneur Gexi Tostmann thinks back to Vivienne Westwood, she paints the picture of a sensitive, hard-working and clever woman. “At the Attersee she was never the Queen of Punk.”
The fashion designers, who are almost the same age and yet so different, got to know each other at a discussion event in Bad Aussee. “There was so much scolding about traditional costumes,” recalls Tostmann, who was outraged. Just like Westwood, who had the statements translated by her Austrian husband Andreas Kronthaler. Due to her appreciation and the following comment by the prominent revolutionary, the subject of traditional costumes experienced an upswing: “If every woman wore a dirndl, there would be no more ugliness in the world!”
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Costume Ambassador
That same evening, the British guests and Gexi Tostmann intensified contact with her daughter Anna Tostmann over a meal together. Westwood was appointed “ambassador of the costume” and also had parts of two of her collections made by the Tostmanns. “We had a nice working relationship and got along well privately, too,” says 80-year-old Tostmann.
Owner and managing director Anna Tostmann answers whether the work for the fashion designer was different from the typical Dirndl production of the company in the Salzkammergut: “For example, she used a silver material that we would not otherwise use. And she wanted it Buttons shaped like penises.”
The fact that Gexi Tostmann had given the British woman a wool jacket knitted by her mother as a gift was reflected on Instagram. “You could always be seen with this jacket in pictures. Even the wool for it came from our sheep,” says Anna Tostmann, who showed her mother the photos on the Internet.
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