VICE Exclusive: Take a Video Tour of Fashion Designer Bernhard Willhelm's Frenetic Art Exhibition at MOCA

Iconic designer Bernhard Willhelm is known for bending the fashion world over his knee and spanking the hell out of it, so it's no surprise that he'd bring a similarly in-your-face attitude to a museum. This past February, the artist and creative partner Jutta Kraus to conceive the exhibition Bernhard Willhelm 3000: When Fashion Shows the Danger Then Fashion Is the Danger at the MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. The project includes creepy mannequins with manic hair and his haute couture on, surreal sculptures, and literal spanking pads. For those who can't make it to LA by the time the exhibition closes May 17, MOCAtv made a video tour that we're premiering on VICE today so you can at least have your eyes spanked.

In the tour, directed by Niko the Ikon, host Matthew Marble jaunts around the installations cracking jokes, describing the artwork as her voice gets auto-tuned because… why not? She explains that the work is a "look into the future of fashion," including Willhelm's autumn/winter 2015–6 collection. While it may be hard to enter the time machine based on a four-minute clip, the video makes it clear that Willhelm 3000 undeniably occupies a space between chaos and diversity, which was one of the exhibition's goals.

In a recent interview with VICE sister-site i-D, the designer-cum-fine-artist explained that the work aims to question the uniformity of consumerism through his unique, manic juxtaposition of commodified objects and art pieces. "It's interesting that nobody questions anything," Willhelm said. "It's the question why everybody wants to have the same things, like Abercrombie and Fitch and Starbucks. People are very happy to submit themselves to conformity." If it were up to the designer, the world might be a bit more frenzied, but definitely more interesting.

Watch the video above, and head over to the MOCA's website for more information about the exhibition. Bernhard Willhelm 3000: When Fashion Shows the Danger Then Fashion Is the Danger is on view from February 7 through May 17, 2015, at MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.