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 “Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear.” 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. While the idea for the exhibition was first germinated by curators Claire Wilcox and Rosalind McKever almost a decade ago, it was buzzy 33-year-old architect @jaydenaali, whose firm, J.A. Projects, was tapped to design the show in 2020. “The curators work on the show for so many years, and then somebody comes in who is going to have such a big impact on what it looks and feels like, so it can be quite a risky and vulnerable moment,” Ali says. Tap the link in bio to read Ali’s interview with @liamnhess and find out about his his fascination with the evolving possibilities of the museum, his unorthodox approach to running an architecture practice, and the community-led approach he’s taking to the British Pavilion in Venice next year.