When Naomi: in Fashion opens at the V&A on Saturday, visitors will be greeted by Naomi Campbell herself. The exhibition begins with a video montage of a lifesize Campbell catwalking towards the visitor.
One minute she is in a Chanel tweed suit, then Versace clubwear, now a Westwood corset. Her hair is sliced into a bob, or whips the air in a ponytail; now she’s in a fedora, or a turban. Every get up is different, but every frame is only ever really about Naomi. The heart-shaped face with its Bond villain stare as she fronts up to the camera, the swing of her hips and matador snap of her heels as she turns and stalks away. The V&A has never seen such va-va-voom.
