Murray Blewett

Murray Blewett is a long-standing designer and archive figure at Vivienne Westwood whose house tenure reaches back to the Autumn/Winter 1987–88 period. By the 2010s he was one of the senior design managers working below Vivienne Westwood and Andreas Kronthaler, with responsibilities extending across seasonal development, World’s End and the house archive.

Blewett became especially important to Vivienne Westwood Red Label. He developed the theme of the Autumn/Winter 2011–12 collection and was identified in 2012 as the designer overseeing Red Label. By 2014–15 his work also encompassed World’s End and archive responsibility, placing him at the point where historic cuts, prints and shop-era material could return to contemporary product.

The global Red Label name was absorbed into the Vivienne Westwood mainline during 2016–17. Blewett’s importance lies in the long continuity of his house work and in a period when Red Label carried its own senior creative authority inside the wider Westwood organisation.

Blewett’s work sits inside the practical transmission of Westwood’s house language. Red Label drew on tailoring, tartan, historical references, eccentric proportion and the founder’s established vocabulary at a more accessible ready-to-wear level. His leadership gave the line room for its own seasonal themes and decisions within the wider house.

His World’s End and archive responsibilities add another dimension. The work demands familiarity with original cuts, prints, shop-era objects, recurring fabrics and the evolution of forms across decades. Blewett could carry those references into current product as living design material.

Across those roles, his contribution is defined by continuity, adaptation and close knowledge of the Westwood vocabulary. He represents the senior studio authorship that sustained Red Label and World’s End through the mature multi-line years of the house.