Wednesday 19 February 2014

Hello my name is Paul Smith


If you’re planning a visit to Southbank I strongly recommend you take a little diversion to the Design Museum to see the Paul Smith Exhibition (15 November 2013 - 09 March 2014).

You enter the exhibition through a tiny room which represents the size of his first shop and emerge into a huge corridor filled top to bottom with framed artworks Paul Smith started collecting as a teenager.

The exhibition continues in a series or rooms; there are examples of clothes he has designed, examples of his shops around the world, mock ups of his work rooms, a room of abstract film images and another of ‘a day in the life of Paul Smith’ showing the build up to one of his catwalk shows and the end result.  

Although I have never been a huge fan of Paul Smith’s clothing designs, this was a great insight to how one of Britain’s best designer’s works and an brilliant chance to see all the amazing collaborations he has made.    

This is a very visual and interactive exhibition – definitely a good recommendation for a Sunday afternoon when you want to immerse yourself in a different experience.