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Rei Kawakubo (川久保 玲, Kawakubo Rei) (born 11 October 1942) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. She is the founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market.In recognition of the notable design contributions of Kawakubo, an exhibition of her designs entitled Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons, Art of the In-Between opened on 5 May 2017 at the Metropolitan Museum of ...
May 18, 2021 · Rei Kawakubo’s words and clothes present the “authentic” power of creation, at a time when everything is opaque and all we can do is strive. This article originally ran in Vogue Japan. Last ...
Rei Kawakubo (born October 11, 1942, Tokyo, Japan) is a self-taught Japanese fashion designer known for her avant-garde clothing designs and her high-fashion label, Comme des Garçons (CDG), founded in 1969. Kawakubo’s iconoclastic vision made her one of the most influential designers of the late 20th century.
May 19, 2021 · Last October, Comme des Garçons launched its spring/summer 2021 collection in Tokyo instead of Paris, breaking a tradition of 40 years. Although the scale of the shows was heavily restricted due to the pandemic, they expressed Rei Kawakubo’s desire to “showcase the garments in the flesh”. Editor-in-chief of Vogue Japan, Mitsuko Watanabe ...
Apr 28, 2017 · Fashion, after all, is a living art form. This is an edited excerpt from the exhibition catalogue ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between’ by Andrew Bolton, The Metropolitan ...
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 season, collection after collection, she upends conventional notions of beauty and disrupts accepted characteristics of the fashionable body.
May 1, 2017 · “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between” is the first Costume Institute show devoted to a single, living designer since its Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in 1983.
Apr 24, 2017 · Rei Kawakubo: A Punk’s Pain. On the eve of a major retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the radical and reclusive Comme des Garçons designer talks to BoF’s Tim Blanks about the pain of constant creation and the impossibility of stopping. Rei Kawakubo. (Paolo Roversi ©Comme des Garcons 2016)
The Costume Institute's spring 2017 exhibition examines the work of fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, known for her avant-garde designs and ability to challenge conventional notions of beauty, good taste, and fashionability. The thematic show features approximately 140 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for Comme des Garçons dating from the early ...
Apr 28, 2017 · Key Themes in Rei Kawakubo’s Career. The Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo is one of fashion's most influential designers — a fact that is about to be cemented by an exhibition at the ...
