Two fashion icons, British designer Vivienne Westwood and Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo have always cut the cloth in ground-breaking ways. They will be the subject of a new exhibition this summer at the National Gallery of Victoria International that brings the best in radical global fashion to Australia.
This next summer exhibition – opening 7 December 2025 to 19 April 2026 – will present over 140 innovative and ground-breaking designs created by Westwood and Kawakubo, and will take audiences on a wild sensorial overload delving into fashion’s radical edge, heightened by bespoke exhibition design and famed outfits worn by the world’s superstars.