Somerset House is a beautiful setting to examine the visual and conceptual ideas that unite fashion and architecture during the period from the 1980's to the present day. The show features more than 200 works by over 50 internationally renowned architects and fashion designers including:

Fashion:

Boudicca, Hussein Chalayan, Comme des Garcons, Martin Margiele, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Viktor & Rolf, Junya Watanabe, Vivienne Westwood and Yohji Yamamoto.

Shigeru Ban, Future Systems, Foreign Office Architects, Gehry Partners, Thomas Heatherwick, Herzog & de Meuron, Toyo Ito, Enrique Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue/EMBT Arquitectes, OMA and Zaha Hadid.

It examines new thresholds particularly in the 1990s and beyond with the rise to prominence in the 1980s of designers such as Comme des Garcons, Yohji, Yamamoto and Issey Miyake.

The whole exhibition challenges accepted boundaries and celebrates a more radical approach to the fashion design which in turn has directly influenced a new generation of designers such as Martin Margiela, Hussein Chalayan and Viktor & Rolf.

The dark ambience of the exhibition and the use of various multi media tools to engage with the attendee all added to the excitement of the exhibition but what was really impressive was the actual use of the garments to demonstrate and illustrate new architectural lines and similar the use of new architecture developments to inspire today's fashion artists.