Audio Description Tour – Westwood | Kawakubo

Name: Audio Description Tour – Westwood | Kawakubo
Start: 2026-03-20T22:00:00+11:00
End: 2026-03-21T00:00:00+11:00
Location: NGV International

Schedule

Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 pm to Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

NGV International | Melbourne, VI

AUDIO DESCRIPTION TOUR – WESTWOOD | KAWAKUBO

Discover two global icons of the fashion world with this audio description 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.
For information or to book over the phone, call 03 8620 2222 between 9am–5pm, daily.
Please note, this tour is free however you need to purchase a ticket to the Relaxed Session Morning to attend.

📍 NGV International
🗓️ Saturday 21 March
⏰ 8–10am

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➡️ What's On
8-10am: Relaxed Morning event with access to the Westwood | Kawakubo exhibition
8:15-9am: Audio Description tour

✂️ ABOUT WESTWOOD | KAWAKUBO
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.