Miley Cyrus and Ezra Miller Join Riccardo Tisci to Celebrate Burberry’s Collaboration With Vivienne Westwood

Miley Cyrus and Ezra Miller Join Riccardo Tisci to Celebrate Burberry’s Collaboration With Vivienne Westwood

Billed as a rave rather than a launch party, the celebration for Burberry’s collaboration with Vivienne Westwood was bound to be epic. The scene outside the Chelsea Sorting Office, where the event took place, was a fantastic spectacle all of its own, with a line of riotously dressed partygoers snaking around the block.

Inside, pole dancers wearing Burberry bikinis and swim shorts gyrated above the crowds, while shirtless male-model types served up Champagne and cocktails in the torch-lit courtyard. A handful of the thousand or so attendees who made it through the door were granted access to Burberry creative director Riccardo Tisci’s special VIP area. There, the likes of Ezra Miller and Miley Cyrus rubbed shoulders with clubland legends such as Ladyfag and her partner Skin, of 1990s rock band Skunk Anansie.

Westwood and Tisci both have an affinity for punk and are known to infuse that rebellious spirit into their designs. Small wonder, then, that M.I.A., one of music’s most celebrated rabble-rousers and a face of Burberry’s holiday campaign, was invited to perform, taking to the stage a little before midnight. She kicked off her shoes and climbed on top of the speakers before delivering a highly charged rendition of her famous hit single “Bad Girls,” a fitting anthem for the night.