London's V&A Readies Yohji Yamamoto Retrospective

As if the Design Museum’s imminent Wim Crouwel fest wasn’t reason enough to plan a spring or summer trip to London, the city’s Victoria and Albert Museum will celebrate the 30-year career of fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto with a retrospective that will run from March 12 to July 10, 2011. And it’s no ordinary show. Curated by the V&A’s Ligaya Salazar and designed by longtime Yamamoto collaborator Masao Nihei with graphic art direction by Peter Saville, the retrospective will feature more than 60 garments in the museum’s main exhibition court as well as 20 more on mannequins sprinkled among the treasures of the V&A: here a deconstructed suit in the Norfolk House Music Room, there a Shibori-dyed gown communing with Renaissance sculptures.