Casting her eye across the credit card toting great unwashed, Ms Westwood has offered advice to penny-pinched ladies seeking to maintain their sense of style, while still affording the rent.
At Westwood's Gold Label show in Paris, GraziaUK reported the flame-haired designer suggests women take a do-it-yourself approach to fashion.
"In these hard times, there is status in wearing your clothes over and over until they grow old or fall apart," Westwood said.
She recommends creating "necklaces out of safety pins" and using curtains, tablecloths and towels for shawls.
Known for always pushing the traditional boundaries of style, particularly for a lady pushing sixty years young, Westwood seems more likely than many to wear a towel shawl with her evening gown.As a more realistically stylish alternative, the Grande Dame also offers forward a mix-and-match idea that cash savvy fashionistas have been flauting for decades.
Westwood suggests women style beautiful pieces from their own wardrobes with pieces found in the closests of their nearest and dearest.
Unlike Westwood's artist/bus driver take on mix-and-match dressing in this photo, this fashion option now creates an effortless look that can be tailored to suit any wardrobe.
Summer's shirtdress can be done DIY-style by belting the middle of your favourite man's shirt.
And if one would prefer to drive a car instead of spending up on Gucci's US$3295 Hysteria tote, an ethnic-inspired bag borrowed from Mum, or anyone else that was styling in the '70s, would certainly cover all bases.
Modern style is becoming more and more accepting of an individual flavour to dressing.
Visiting op-shops, fossicking through Grandma's wardrobe or picking up one-offs at garage sales are becoming popular ways of piecing an on-trend look together for less.
Just ask the Grande Dame!
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