with AP Always one sashay ahead of the pack, Naomi Campbell is the first supermodel to get her own solo fashion exhibition. Opening at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum on Saturday, the star has loaned outfits from her private collection to be put on display. Complimenting around 80 garments in the exhibition are photos and items from Campbell’s personal archive that help to celebrate her glittering 40-year career.
Project curator, Elizabeth Murray, says highlights include an Yves Saint Laurent dress made of white fluffy bird of paradise feathers and “mock croc” blue Vivienne Westwood shoes that Campbell famously tumbled on in a 1993 catwalk. Her relationships with big names like Westwood, Gianni Versace, and Alexander McQueen are commemorated in the exhibition, with numerous dresses which she wore on the catwalk, for a modelling shoot, or to special events. Campbell's close connection with Tunisian-born couturier Azzedine Alaïa is acknowledged in one section of the exhibit.
It features the leopard print bodysuit that she wore for a shoot with Herb Ritts in 1991 and a selection of Alaïa dresses that were made specifically for her. “She met him in 1986 when she was in Paris and they fostered a really wonderful personal and professional relationship. His clothes, there's so many of them in her wardrobe,” says Murray.
The supermodel is also known for championing fresh fashion talent like Nigeria's Kenneth Ize and British designer, Torishéju Dumi, who both hav.
