We are delighted that the Vivienne Westwood Harlequin Mini-Crini, which sold for £13,000 in our single owner Vivienne Westwood Sale last year, is now on view in a major exhibition in Australia.
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Vivienne Westwood Harlequin Mini-Crini in Major Exhibition
Westwood / Kawakubo, a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, pairs two global icons – and iconoclasts – of the fashion world for the first time, British designer Vivienne Westwood (1941 – 2022) and Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo (b. 1942) of Comme des Garçons. Born a year apart in different countries and cultural contexts, each brought a rule-breaking radicalism to fashion design that subverted the status quo. 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.
The exhibition brings together important loans from international museums and private collections – including New York’s Metropolitan Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Palais Galliera, and the Vivienne Westwood archive – alongside 100+ outstanding works from the NGV Collection. The exhibition features more than 80 works that have recently entered the NGV Collection, including 40 outstanding works recently gifted to the NGV by Comme des Garçons especially for this exhibition.
Presented thematically, Westwood | Kawakubo charts the defining collections and concerns of their practices
The exhibition opened on 6th December and will be on view until 19th April.
View exhibition: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/westwood-kawakubo/
With thanks to the National Gallery of Victoria for sharing these wonderful images with us. Photo Credit: NGV/Sean Fennessy
