Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo’s parallel careers – in pictures

A new blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) juxtaposes two of the most important fashion designers of the past five decades. Rei Kawakubo and Vivienne Westwood’s work has never appeared side by side on this scale before, something NGV’s senior curator of fashion and textiles, Katie Somerville, describes as ‘a thrill for a curator’ Westwood | Kawakubo is at the National Gallery of Victoria from 7 December to 19 April Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo paired for the first time in blockbuster exhibition at the NGV Continue reading...