{"id":909769,"date":"2026-09-26T01:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909769\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:16:12","slug":"olympia-launches-design-museum-partnership-beginning-with-nigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/909769\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympia Launches Design Museum Partnership, Beginning With Nigo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFREE FOR ALL: Olympia, the recently redeveloped West London<\/a> exhibition and entertainment venue, on Friday revealed a yearlong partnership with the Design Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt kicked off with an immersive digital presentation spotlighting Nigo<\/a>, the veteran Japanese designer and current artistic director of Kenzo. Images of his work are displayed on Canvas, Olympia\u2019s new outdoor digital screen spanning over 83 meters.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe museum is hosting \u201cNigo<\/a>: From Japan With Love,\u201d the first retrospective exhibition celebrating the designer, who also created A Bathing Ape and Human Made.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI am truly honored for my first retrospective exhibition to be held at the Design Museum<\/a> in London<\/a>, and I\u2019m deeply grateful for the opportunity to present my work in such an iconic space,\u201d Nigo previously stated.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Japanese designer has worked alongside numerous world-famous creative directors, such as Pharrell Williams, producing innovative designs and partnerships, while revolutionizing the relationship between streetwear, luxury fashion and global culture.<\/p>\n

\n\tHonoring Nigo\u2019s work and influence, the exhibition analyzes and illustrates the cultural fusions that have shaped his lifework through fashion, music, and design \u2014 from Japanese craft and streetwear to vintage Americana and contemporary luxury.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege to partner with the Design Museum, a leading London cultural institution, to bring their incredible exhibitions to life here at Olympia,\u201d said Michael Volkert, chief executive officer of Olympia.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeing able to offer this experience free of charge makes it even more meaningful and is central to our vision of making world-class culture accessible to everyone \u2014 we want culture to be woven into the experience of being here \u2014 not as an add-on,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe presentation was produced in collaboration with Pixel Artworks, an experience-design studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe wide-format piece runs daily every 15 minutes and is free to the public until Oct. 4. This marks the first of a series of free cultural activations drawing on the Design Museum\u2019s programs throughout 2026 and 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FREE FOR ALL: Olympia, the recently redeveloped West London exhibition and entertainment venue, on Friday revealed a yearlong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,99155,75,4472,168149],"class_list":["post-909769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-design-museum","tag-entertainment","tag-london","tag-nigo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}