

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Westwood | Kawakubo
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 19 Apr, 2026 at 12:00 am – Sun, 19 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 am (+10:00)
- **Event Description**: 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.

Bringing together works from the NGV Collection with selected important loans from international museums and private collections, the exhibition highlights key collections and concerns, showcasing over 140 designs that explore the convergences and divergences between the two designers’ work. Structuring themes include Punk and Provocation, Rupture, Reinvention and The Body and The Power of Clothes, each considering different ways in which Westwood and Kawakubo have rewritten fashion convention over the course of their careers.

Book now: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/westwood-kawakubo/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melbourne/westwood-|-kawakubo/200029639975834
- **Event Categories**: art, exhibitions, fashion
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 657

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/westwood-kawakubo/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=melbourne-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Melbourne
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: NGV International
- **lat**: -37.822278379498
- **long**: 144.9687883
- **full address**: NGV International, Ngv International, 130-200 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia, Melbourne

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: National Gallery of Victoria (https://allevents.in/org/national-gallery-of-victoria/255228)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 19 Apr, 2026 at 12:00 am (+10:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** NGV International, Ngv International, 130-200 St Kilda Rd, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia, Melbourne
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** National Gallery of Victoria
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, exhibitions, fashion
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Westwood | Kawakubo ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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