For the first issue of NGV Magazine for 2026, we cover the major summer exhibition Westwood | Kawakubo, with readings from a range of expert voices into the worlds and archives of Westwood and Kawakubo. We also enjoy works made during the 1970s and 80s in Melbourne’s punk scene, learn about Cuban artist Wifredo Lam and his work Damballah, 1945, which recently joined the NGV Collection and dress historian Dr Hilary Davidson, introduces ‘Regencycore’ – the obsession with all things related to the eighteenth-century Regency period.