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‘When you fall, you pick yourself up’: Naomi Campbell on her V&A exhibition
London show illustrates 40-year career of first Black British model to front British Vogue, spanning fashion, culture and politics
This week, she’s been running about town on the underground, reliving the journey she used to take to school in Brixton, filming TikToks with content creators and putting in the hours promoting an exhibition at the V&A that chronicles her 40 years in fashion. Photograph: Neville Marriner/Daily Mail/ShutterstockThe exhibition, which opens on 22 June, will be split into sections and include “becoming Naomi”, which explores her childhood, her supermodel era, her relationship with Alaïa, the New York years when she shared a flat with fellow model Christy Turlington, collaborations with fashion houses from Vivienne Westwood to Jean Paul Gaultier and her advocacy work. At the more minor end, a pair of skyscraper Vivienne Westwood platforms worn by Campbell during her famous 1993 catwalk stumble, to the Dolce & Gabbana gown she wore on the final day of community service at the New York sanitation department, a punishment for throwing a phone at her maid.
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