As you enter the NGV through the Waterwall entrance on St Kilda Road, the Westwood | Kawakubo exhibition is on the left-hand side or south end of the building.

You will pass through the Gallery Kitchen to reach the exhibition entrance. If you need to purchase a ticket, the ticket desk is on the right-hand side. NGV Members and people with access requirements can use the priority queue at the ticket desk and at the exhibition entrance.

The Gallery Kitchen is often busy and can be loud, with people eating and talking. You are welcome to purchase food and drinks here and sit and relax, or take them into the Great Hall for a quieter space. Food and drinks, except water bottles with a lid, cannot be taken into the exhibition space.

A security team member will scan your ticket at the entry to the Westwood | Kawakubo exhibition. The scanners have a light and make a beeping sound when scanning.

Please do not touch the artworks.

As you enter the exhibition, corridors lead you towards the first gallery space. Along your right-hand side of these corridors is a video wall showing dynamic and fast-moving archival footage with the effect of flashing light at times. Fairly loud music and dialogue snippets play.

The walls and ceiling are light-coloured. Lights with exposed bulbs hang overhead by chains.

A medium-sized room with a central display using mirrors, chains and a base that appears to be floating off the ground.

Around the outside of the room, mannequins are presented in nooks with mirrors. Six screens are embedded in between these displays. Background music plays.

The floor is light-coloured. Layered, wavy-shaped curtain design elements hang from the ceiling. Lights with exposed bulbs hang from chains overhead.

Another corridor leads you towards the next space. On your left-hand side is a timeline featuring photos, written information and some small video screens. Interview and runway footage is shown with captions. Quotes from both designers are printed on the wall on your right-hand side.

The walls are light-coloured. Lights with exposed bulbs hang from chains overhead.

A medium-sized high-sensory room with vibrant red carpet, walls and ceiling. A fairly loud soundtrack with strong bass plays.

Curving, bright white lighting creates lines across the ceiling. The lights pulse intermittently in time with music and a heartbeat sound. There is a large LED screen on the back wall displaying dynamic ambient footage. There are occasional intermittent light flashes that occur around once a minute, which may be challenging for some visitors.

There is a bench seat behind the central display.

A smaller space with a curved plinth on the right-hand side displaying mannequins. Behind them, a large wall displays projected high-contrast moving shapes. An ambient soundtrack plays.

The floor and ceiling are light-coloured.

A medium-sized space with tiered plinths on both sides. The floor and ceiling are light-coloured.

The large, curved wall displays gentle projected animations.

At the far end of the room, mannequins are presented on honeycomb-shaped plinths two levels high against a black wall.

A smaller room with mannequins displayed on either side and two gray column structures in the centre. The floor is a deep purple carpet. On the right-hand side, the walls display a printed wallpaper. On the left-hand side, a projection plays ambient animations.

A video projection on the left-hand-side wall plays gentle abstract animations. Music plays.

There are two bench seats.

A small room with a central display plus mannequins along both sides. The central display has a mirrored base, which gives it the illusion of floating above the floor.

The side sections have dark purple walls and flooring.

A small room with a large LED screen showing dynamic and fast-moving runway footage that includes flash photography and fairly loud music. There is a display on plinths on the right-hand side and a bench seat on the left-hand side. The exhibition continues around to the left.

Around the corner is a small space with low lighting. A light-coloured central path is surrounded by dark flooring and walls. There are mannequin displays on both sides.

In the final space of the exhibition, four columns are covered in wooden elements and lit from within, casting shadows across the room. There are mannequin displays on both sides.

This space has low lighting and a fairly loud soundtrack.

The exhibition exits into the NGV design store.

Map showing the exhibition layout including the locations of immersive rooms, audio-visual content and seating.

Download the sensory map