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.
“Each brought a rule-breaking radicalism to fashion design that subverted the status quo,” says the NGV. “Today, their critically acclaimed collections are celebrated globally for questioning conventions of taste, gender and beauty, as well as challenging the very form and function of clothing.”
