Fashion is tangible history. It holds our hand through decades, cultural epochs and junctures; wearable artifacts reflecting an ever-shifting visual and physical landscape. LA Museum has cultivated a place for this history to live, a globally-accessible, digital home for generations of artistry and craftsmanship. They’re adapting to the world’s advancing online ecosystem, unbothered by the limitations of a physical medium.

The online fashion museum, via Tokyo’s cult-vintage store LAILA, presents their newest exhibition, “LA MUSEUM NANA KOMATSU,” an archive of 54 prominent pieces spanning the 1960s to the 2010s. In collaboration with model and actress Nana Komatsu, the archive captures her in a fully 3D, almost virtual reality-rendered world, bringing the garments to life as a “living mannequin,” so the museum describes. Komatsu has held the floor across both fashion and film, recently named to The Business of Fashion’s BOF 500 Class of 2025, and now enters cyberspace, decorating herself in each historic piece, from Pierre Cardin A/W 1967 to Jean Paul Gaultier A/W 1995.

She embodies each one as if it's a character, yet mirrors the otherworldly atmosphere in which she has been placed into with utter fluidity and dexterity—posing as if it will be etched into time forever. The exhibition is accompanied by an eponymous book, “LA MUSEUM NANA KOMATSU,” which debuts later this month following a limited launch in Japan. Through a series of behind-the-scenes photographs, it depicts the intricate, yet complex process that was the two-day 3D capture that would later become the exhibition.

By reimagining the way that fashion is experienced as art, LA Museum is allowing the medium to coexist amongst the garden of hybrid realities, where silhouettes speak instead of sitting in staticity.