7 Key Themes in Rei Kawakubo’s Career - The New York Times
WEBApr 28, 2017 · In the 1980s, the color black quickly became synonymous with Kawakubo’s aesthetic. When Comme des Garçons made its Paris Fashion Week debut in 1981, the clothes drew attention in their absolute...
Comme des Garçons | Ensemble - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBDesign House: Comme des Garçons (Japanese, founded 1969) Designer: Rei Kawakubo (Japanese, born 1942) Date: fall/winter 1982–83. Culture: Japanese. Medium: wool, cotton. Credit Line: Millia Davenport and Zipporah Fleisher …
Rei Kawakubo - Wikipedia
WEBComme des Garçons specialises in anti-fashion, austere, sometimes deconstructed garments. After the end of her first decade with Comme de Garcons, in 1982, Kawakubo began to express her dissatisfaction with the early direction of some of her design ideas stating: "Three years ago I became dissatisfied with what I was doing.
How Rei Kawakubo Spent Decades Defining the Avant-Garde
WEBApr 18, 2017 · When she founded Comme des Garçons in 1969, she reimagined what clothing could be, and she remains at the vanguard of her art, outpacing experimental designers half her age. How does one designer remain the gold standard of the new for almost half a century, through all the maximalism, the minimalism, the wear-now-buy-when?
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between
WEBSep 4, 2017 · Since founding Comme des Garçons ("like some boys") in 1969, the Tokyo-based designer Rei Kawakubo (born 1942) has consistently defined and redefined the aesthetics of our time. Season after...
The Unsettling Vision of Rei Kawakubo - The New Yorker
WEBJul 21, 2014 · One of the most mocked pieces from 1982 was a sublimely sorry-looking sweater cratered with holes that she called (one assumes with irony, though one can’t be sure) “Comme des Garçons lace.”
Rei Kawakubo, the Nearly Silent Oracle of Fashion
WEBMay 1, 2017 · Comme des Garçons breeds passionate acolytes, whose mantra is “Comme” as yogis’ is “om,” but skeptics and doubters, too.
Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between
WEBBrilliant new photographs of more than 120 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for Comme des Garçons, accompanied by Kawakubo's commentary on her designs and creative process, reveal her conceptual and challenging aesthetic as never before.
Remembering One of Rei Kawakubo’s Most Boundary-Breaking …
WEBMay 4, 2017 · For more than 40 years, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons — who is the subject of the show “Art of the In-Between,” which opens to the public today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — has ...
Comme des Garçons - Wikipedia
WEBComme des Garçons (French for 'Like Boys', pronounced [kɔm de ɡaʁsɔ̃]; Japanese: コム・デ・ギャルソン, romanized: Komu de Gyaruson), [1] also CDG for short, is a Japanese fashion label based in Paris, founded by Rei Kawakubo. [2]
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