S2 Ep1759: NIGO: From Japan with Love, Design Museum - Audio Described Tour, Friday 5 June 2026 from 10.30am

About this episode

The episode features an audio described tour of the 'NIGO: From Japan with Love' exhibition at the Design Museum in London.

From the back streets of Harajuku, Tokyo, to the global stage, the exhibition ‘NIGO: From Japan with Love’ at the Design Museum in London is the first-ever museum retrospective exhibition outside of Japan that charts the career and life of the Japanese creative director, NIGO, one of the first creatives to bridge the worlds of streetwear and luxury fashion. The ‘NIGO: From Japan with Love’ exhibition features over 700 objects, including a recreation of NIGO’s teenage bedroom, rare designs, ceramics hand-thrown by NIGO himself, and a life-size glass tea house made especially for the exhibition. RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Luisa Ulyett, Senior Curator, Public Practice at the Design Museum and Rosa Abbott, Assistant Curator of the exhibition to find out more about NIGO and the audio described tour of the ‘NIGO: from Japan with Love’ exhibition on Friday 5 June 2026 from 10.30am to 12noon. To find out more and book your place on the audio described tour of the ’NIGO: From Japan with Love’ exhibition do visit - https://designmuseum.org/whats-on/talks-courses-and-workshops/audio-described-tour-of-nigo-from-japan-with-love (Image shows the RNIB Connect Radio logo. On…

People in this episode

Host: Toby Davey

Guests: Luisa Ulyett, Rosa Abbott

Topics covered

• NIGO
• Design Museum
• audio description
• fashion
• exhibition
• curation

Keywords

• NIGO
• Design Museum
• audio described tour
• fashion exhibition
• Tokyo
• streetwear
• luxury fashion

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Design Museum

Books & works: NIGO: From Japan with Love

Places: Japan, London

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