Trousers

After a year in exile (1979-80) in Paris, McLaren returned with fresh ideas — including the Squiggle Print and African beats, which he channeled into new musical and fashion projects. He transformed the Seditionaries shop into Worlds End, which opened in 1981. With its port hole window and titling floor, along with a 13-hour clock racing backwards on its façade, it mimics a pirate ship at sail. With this, McLaren came up with the idea of the Pirate collection, based on his hero, Blackbeard the Pirate. Combined with Westwood’s obsession with historical costume, the Pirate collection was born.

These trousers in striped cotton with an asymmetric waist closure and unsual leg cut are part of an ensemble from the collection worn by clothes designer Dane Goulding. He commented: 'I grew up being really frustrated with the aesthetic limitations imposed on me just because I was male. I really never understood why my sister got all the interesting stuff...I really owe a huge debt to Miss/Mrs Westwood and I think her clothes are way more than just clothes, they taught you how to work a very insecure system...I honestly never bought her clothes to look cute, I always felt as though I was commenting on a world I was really unhappy with.'