Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between

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A revelatory have a look at the influential and enigmatic designer in the back of Comme des Garçons

The great pantheon of fashion designers produces just a handful of creators who’re masters in their métier. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons is one in all them. Widely known among her contemporaries as a very powerful and influential designer of the past forty years, she has, since her Paris debut in 1981, defined and transformed the aesthetics of our time. This lavishly illustrated publication examines Kawakubo’s fascination with interstitiality, or the space between boundaries. Existing within and between dualities—whether self/other, object/subject, art/fashion—Kawakubo’s work challenges the rigid divisions that have come to define received notions of identity and fashionability, inviting us to rethink fashion as a website of constant creation, re-creation, and, in the end, hybridity. Featuring brilliant new photography, and thought-provoking texts by Andrew Bolton, this book expresses the conceptual and challenging aesthetic of this visionary designer. An insightful interview and illustrated chronology of Kawakubo’s career provide additional context.

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