The 33-year-old architect and designer, who will also cocurate the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale next year, is a rising talent to watch.
The grand halls of London’s Victoria and Albert Museum have played host to plenty of the world’s most agenda-setting fashion exhibitions over the years—but none quite like this year’s blockbuster “.” With a timeline that includes the full sweep of Western civilization , the show draws links between the past and menswear’s liberated present through a wildly inventive design scheme that revels in the curiosities and contradictions of men’s clothing across the centuries.
What underpins everything Ali does is a social conscience and a keen emphasis on harnessing the opportunities coming his way to serve the communities that will use the spaces most. “I think good architects are advocates,” says Ali. “I think what you’re trying to do is to paint a vision of the world that you think is better, and hopefully that’s compelling enough for other people to buy into it and for it to shift the discourse somehow. What we’re doing is trying to make sense of the world.
Did you want to defy the conventions of the traditional exhibition format in any specific way with your design for “Fashioning Masculinities”?
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