Vivienne Westwood Is In Big Trouble...

A conflict between the label’s commercial interests and the late designer’s anti-capitalist values is threatening to tear the company apart. The battle over the Vivienne Westwood brand is intensifying. In an email to Vivienne Westwood staff seen by WWD, the late iconic designer’s granddaughter Cora Corré called for the longtime chief executive officer Carlo D’Amario to be fired, and accused him of bullying her late grandmother, the company’s founder and creative heart. In the email, Corré claimed D’Amario’s “behavior towards employees, his mismanagement, his lack of basic corporate discipline and communication brings enormous shame and reputational damage” to the company. Corré, the daughter of Westwood’s younger son Joe Corré and Serena Rees, has also accused D’Amario of hampering the work of the Vivienne Foundation, a not-for-profit founded by the designer, and of failing to pay royalties on the sale of her designs. The model and activist said she wants Westwood company directors to “take action where they have the power to do so. The first step is removing Carlo D’Amario from his position as CEO.” Earlier this week, Corré revealed separately that she was quitting Vivienne Westwood to focus her attention on the foundation. She said her position at the fashion company had become “untenable.” While Corré would like to see Vivienne Westwood Ltd. and the foundation work in harmony, she believes it will not be possible as long as D’Amario remains CEO. “It has now been two year