Joseph Corré: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|British activist and businessman (born 1967)}}

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| birth_place = {{Nowrap|[[Clapham]], [[England]]London, United Kingdom}}England

| parents = [[Malcolm McLaren]] <small>(father) (deceased)</small><br/>Dame [[Vivienne Westwood]] <small>(mother)</small>

| spouse = [[Serena Rees]] <small>(divorced)</small>

Corré was born in [[Clapham]], south London, the son of British fashion designer [[Vivienne Westwood|Dame Vivienne Westwood]] and [[Malcolm McLaren]], former manager of [[Sex Pistols]].

Corré's surname, which was not adopted but given at birth, derives from his father's maternal grandmother, a [[Sephardic Jew]] from Portugal.<ref name="independent.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/joe-correacute-and-serena-rees-sex-and-the-city-649844.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412135859/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/joe-correacute-and-serena-rees-sex-and-the-city-649844.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 April 2010|work=The Independent|location=London|title=Joe Corré and Serena Rees: Sex and the City|date=29 July 2002|accessdate=7 May 2010}}</ref> As a child, he wore his mother's designs and regards the Sex Pistols as his favourite band, despite a poor relationship with frontman/singer [[Johnny Rotten|John Lydon]].<ref name="independent.co.uk"/>

Agent Provocateur was established in 1994 after [[Serena Rees]], Corré's wife and co-founder, grew tired of seeing drab undergarments.<ref name="Attwood">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/agent-provocateur-sold-to-private-equity-firm-3i-for-pound60m-400593.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220614/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/agent-provocateur-sold-to-private-equity-firm-3i-for-pound60m-400593.html |archive-date=14 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|work=The Independent|location=London|title=Agent Provocateur sold to private equity firm 3i for £60m|first=Karen|last=Attwood|date=16 November 2007|accessdate=7 May 2010}}</ref> The couple opened a shop in which they originally sold other designers' pieces. Corré had no desire to design [[lingerie]] but, after not finding enough of the type they wished to sell, decided to create their own lingerie line. Since then, the company has expanded to 30 shops in 14 countries. {{citation needed|date=October 2013}}

Corré is registered as the administrative officer of malcolmmclaren.com.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/malcolmmclaren.com|title=Malcolm McLaren R.I.P.|publisher=Whois.domaintools.com|accessdate=2 August 2013}}</ref> In 2012 he bought the domain name from Paul August Nordstrom of Singapore for $750; August had worked for McLaren and in 1997 registered the domain to himself without McLaren's knowledge.<ref name="domains.adrforum.com">{{cite web|url=http://domains.adrforum.com/domains/decisions/1492383.htm |title=Registrar and Disputed Domain Name |publisher=Domains.adrforum.com |accessdate=12 August 2014}}</ref> August, who said in 2013 he could "no longer recall specifically why he placed his own name as registrant",<ref name="domains.adrforum.com"/> ", had previously refused to pass the domain to the Malcolm McLaren Estate.<ref>{{cite web|author=Staff|url=https://domaingang.com/domain-news/waltz-darling-malcolm-mclarens-com-is-a-posthumous-udrp-drama|title=Waltz darling! Malcolm McLaren's .com is a posthumous UDRP drama|publisher=DomainGang|date=15 May 2013|accessdate=2 August 2013}}</ref>

Prior to the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]], he was one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the [[Green Party of England and Wales|Green Party]]'s [[Caroline Lucas]].<ref>{{cite news | url= https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/24/celebrities-sign-statement-support-caroline-lucas-not-green-party | title= Celebrities sign statement of support for Caroline Lucas – but not the Greens | work=The Guardian | location=London | first=Jessica | last=Elgot | date=24 April 2015 | accessdate=22 July 2015}}</ref> Together with his mother, he has publicly campaigned for the release of [[WikiLeaks]] publisher and journalist [[Julian Assange]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pingitore |first=Silvia |date=2020-04-30 April 2020 |title=EXCLUSIVE interview: Dame Vivienne Westwood & Joe Corré in defence of Julian Assange |url=https://the-shortlisted.co.uk/vivienne-westwood-joe-corre-defence-julian-assange-interview/ |access-date=2021-07-23 July 2021 |website=Thethe-shortlisted.co.uk Shortlisted|language=en-GB}}</ref>

In November 2016 in a staged protest to encourage use of [[renewable energy]], Corré and Vivienne Westwood burned an estimated £6,000,000 worth of his punk rock memorabilia archive on a barge on the [[River Thames]]. When asked about the incident by ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'', "Did this feel like burning a Picasso?", Corré replied "I don’t know what burning a Picasso feels like," adding, "but I thought that was great. Punk rock is not important. Punk has become another marketing tool to sell you something you don’t need".<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|title=Anarchy in the U.K.: Vivienne Westwood’sWestwood's Son Joe Corré Burns $6 Million of His Punk Archive in London|date=November 28, November 2016|author=Leitch, Luke|url=http://www.vogue.com/13506774/punk-archive-burn-joe-corre/}}</ref>

Musician [[Henry Rollins]] wrote in response to the incident, "Corré and Westwood might think they have taught everyone a lesson in what punk’s all about, but all they did was show off their massive egos and how much they’ve lost the plot. Maybe it was something else, too. Perhaps it was an emotional response to the fact that McLaren cut Corré out of his will. It doesn’t matter now. It’s yesterday’s garbage. Ooh, how punk."<ref>{{cite web|work=[[LA Weekly]]|url=http://www.laweekly.com/music/henry-rollins-burning-punk-rock-artifacts-is-not-punk-rock-7692478|title=Henry Rollins: Burning Punk-Rock Artifacts Is Not Punk Rock|date=December 8, December 2016}}</ref>

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