Simon Costin's Impossible Catwalk Shows

Fashion week isn’t just about the clothes: the most memorable shows are all about the setting. Just look at Dolce & Gabbana’s fairytale forest for AW14, Chanel’s supermarket, and pretty much every catwalk show by Alexander McQueen. A new exhibition from set designer Simon Costin, who has worked with the likes of McQueen and Tim Walker, questions the way we look at garments by placing them in innovative and often strange scenarios: hidden in a forest, strewn across a street as graffiti or decaying in a nuclear power station. Accompanying the sets are Costin’s sketches and notebooks charting the formation of his ideas, as well as a Gareth Pugh moodboard and behind-the-scenes from McQueen’s spring-summer collection from 1998.