For information or to book over the phone, call 03 8620 2222 between 9am–5pm, daily.Discover two global icons of the fashion world with this audio description and touch tour exploring exhibition highlights of Westwood | Kawakubo.
This tour will be presented during a Relaxed Session event and is suitable for people who are blind or have low vision and their families or carers. Relaxed Sessions at NGV offer an opportunity for people who could benefit from a quieter experience at the Gallery to experience exhibitions with fewer people and less sensory stimuli.
What’s On
8-10am: Relaxed Morning event with access to the Westwood | Kawakubo exhibition
8:15-9am: Audio Description and Touch Tour starting in the Great Hall
This major international exhibition pairs the work of two of the most influential fashion designers in recent history, Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons.
Beginning their careers in the 1970s working in different countries and cultural contexts, British-born Vivienne Westwood (1941–2022), and Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo (b.1942), introduced a rule-breaking radicalism to fashion by subverting the status quo. As self-taught, independent practitioners, Westwood and Kawakubo’s affinity lies in their uncompromising originality anchored in a desire for personal freedom, autonomy, and social and aesthetic change. Their unorthodox approaches have similarly questioned conventions of taste, gender and beauty, the body, and garment form and function to change how we think about fashion.
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This program is generously supported by donors who wish to be anonymous.