The newly erect London Design Museum proves that museums shouldn't only be reserved for the dead champions of history, but the very current innovators of our time. Opened by Alice Rawsthorn in 2006 and formally home to a Bannana warehouse along the River Thames in the romantic Shad Thames area, the LDM houses all current works by fashion, graphic, and various other designers alike. Constantly evolving their collections, it does cost a mint of 8 pounds and 50 pence to enter as an adult, but well worth the currency.
On my visit I was able to breath in the past decade of Hussein Chalayan, a designer that feeds my furious appetite for relics of the future. A dress made of red lasers, one of carpet components, two of highly condensed tulle, three of wind receptive vented fabric and a filmed fashion show at the end. I was enlightened by all the possibilites in fashion being explored in his work.
I then made my way to the 4th where I looked at architectural models, viewed the dolls of Viktor & Rolf in person, reminded of Shepard Fairy's Obama posters i remember being plastered all over LA before the election, a Radiohead music video, a game about remaining food quanities on the earth, shoes with a porcelain decorated heal, and on and on.
http://www.designmuseum.org/
