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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.
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 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 ...
Apr 28, 2017 · 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 Costume Institute of the Metropolitan ...
Sep 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...
May 1, 2017 · Rei Kawakubo is the first living designer given a solo show at The Met's Costume Institute since 1983. See her work up close in this 360 video. Thomas Ling, via The...
Jul 21, 2014 · Judith Thurman on Rei Kawakubo, the Japanese avant-gardist who changed women’s fashion with her label, Comme des Garçons.
2 days ago · So says Rei Kawakubo in an interview that’s part of next month’s Vogue Japan cover story. That article also features an excellent editorial shoot dedicated to last season’s collection, which ...
May 19, 2021 · 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, sat down with Kawakubo for her thoughts in the midst of such an unprecedented challenge.
Widely recognized as among the most important and influential designers of the past forty years, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons has defined and transformed the visual language of our time.
