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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.
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 ...
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.
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...
Apr 28, 2017 · ‘It was a battle’ — Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons founder, on her Met exhibition. Ahead of a new show in New York, the famously private designer opens up. Red dresses © Rei Kawakubo for Comme...
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.
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) By. Tim Blanks. 24 April 2017.
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.
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...
