NIGO: From Japan with Love
The Design Museum in London stages the very first retrospective on NIGO. The visionary designer and creative director is credited as one of the first designers to bridge the worlds of streetwear and luxury fashion. For the exhibition, NIGO chose USM Modular Furniture to showcase his personal archive.
NIGO, the first Japanese Artistic Director of Paris fashion house KENZO since its founder Kenzo Takada, rose to prominence with his streetwear brand A Bathing Ape in the 1990s; going on to launch Billionaire Boys Club with American musician Pharrell Williams in 2003 and HUMAN MADE in 2010.
Recognised for his unique ability to identify trends and sample cultural references across wide-ranging disciplines, NIGO is responsible for setting some of the most influential trends in recent fashion history. Over the course of his 30-year career, he has successfully bridged fashion, music, architecture and interior design; infusing a range of influences spanning vintage Americana, streetwear, hip-hop, traditional Japanese craft and growing up in 1980s Tokyo.
Featuring over 700 objects – with 600 from NIGO’s own personal archive – the exhibition charts NIGO’s expansive career from the back streets of Harajuku to the runways in Paris. Highlights include a recreation of his teenage bedroom, rare and early era BAPE designs, ceramics hand-thrown by NIGO himself and a life-size glass tea house made specially for the exhibition. To showcase his personal archive in the exhibition, NIGO chose USM Modular Furniture, the same shelving system used to display his collection in his Tokyo studio.
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