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Rei Kawakubo is a Japanese fashion designer and founder of Comme des Garçons and Dover Street Market. She is known for her avant-garde, anti-fashion and deconstructed styles, and has been honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with an exhibition in 2017.
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 ...
- Mitsuko Watanabe
Learn about Rei Kawakubo, a self-taught Japanese fashion designer and the founder of Comme des Garçons. Discover her avant-garde style, her collaborations, her magazine, and her fragrances.
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 · 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 ...
- Alexander Fury
May 9, 2017 · Limiting interactions with the press and public—while at the same time producing very personal pieces—has been a hallmark of Rei Kawakubo’s entire career in fashion.
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.
