REI KAWAKUBO

PARIS I TOKYO

1942 TOKYO / PARIS

1942

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The future is in two dimensions.

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I have always looked for new ways in the design, denying the established values, the conventional, the forms of expression plus the balance, the unfinished, the unfinished, the elimination, the absence of intentionality

BIO GRA PHY

Rei Kawakubo was born on 11 October 1942 in Tokyo. She was born in a middle class family and she was the third and the only daughter.

Her father worked in the university of Keio where she ended studying Philosophy. Her mother was a teacher of english.

After finishing her studies started working in a advertising department of a textile company. Then she started doing some styling and creating her own clothes.

At the beginning’s of the 70’s she launched/released/introduced herself to create her own signature of fashion design, ‘Comme Des Garçons’.

This small/doited woman has a very strong carácter/character has been designing garments with distinctive and recognizable style for more than 40 years, with a quality and care of the ,materials and their production form beyond any doubt.

In the 80s he created a new language together Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake.

As a fact her personality and her character were the inspiration for the creators of Edna Moda in the first film of ‘The Incredibles’.

During the late 1970s started a professional and romantic relationship with fellow japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto.

‘People interest me. I am inspired by the people sorrounding me.

Beautiful or stylish is a personal feeling.

I don’t have a definition of beauty’

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During 1942 was a series of firebombing air aids by the United states Army Air Forces during the Pacific Campaingns of world war II. operation meetinghouse.

The US first mounted an air raid on Tokyo in April 1942.

The strategic bombing was a military strategy used in the war with the goal of defeating the enemy by destroying its economic ability to produce and transport material the the military operations. It’s a systematically organized attack from the air which can utilize missiles , or nuclear-armed fighter- bomber aircraft to attack targets deemed vital to the enemy’s war-making capability.

In this bombing there were 100,000 civilian deaths. The belligerents were the Uniited states and Japan.

The first raid on Tokyo was the Doolittle raid of 18 April

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After the war, Tokyo struggled to rebuild. In 1945 and 1946, the city received a share of the national reconstruction budget roughly proportional to its amount of bombing damage (26.6%), but in successive years Tokyo saw its share dwindle Tokyo did not experience fast economic growth until the 1950s.

Is a Japanese label founded by and headed by Rei Kawakubo.

It’s based in Tokyo and also in the Place Vendôme in Paris.

We can find the shop in Tokyo in Aoyama, Tokyo’s high fashion district. The company also have more stores in Kyoto, Osaka and Fukuoka.

Nowadays there are many places where you can find Comme des garçons stores worldwide like in new york, Hong-Kong, Bangkok. Seoul, singapore, Melbourne and Manila.

Comme de Garçons collections are designed in their studio located in Aoyama, Tokyo and are manufacturated in Japan, France, Spain and Turkey. The company has over the years recurrently associated itself with the arts and cultural projects internationally.

It also have collaborated with various other labels over the years including Fred Perry, Levi’s, Speedo, Nike, Lacoste, Louis Vuiton, Supreme, and many others.

As a fact, Björk wears Comme des garçons in the music video for Isobel, there are other many celebrities that weared Cmme Des Garóns Fashion like Lady gaga, Kayne West, Karl Lagerfeld , Heidi albertensen Drake , joe Jonas , Frank Ocean,.. and more.

Is commnly known for its heart´shaped logo with two eyes, this brand is a casual luxury line. It’s more accessible variation of comme des garçons other lines This brand also produces a line of fragances . The brand released its first frangance Comme des garçons in 1994.

everything that makes you happy and sad in life.

FALL·2012

Normally on the way to Comme Des Garçons show we’re given a tip, a clue, a key to understanding the show we are about to see.

s. Kawakubo was in a class of her own.

The two elements SHAPE and COLOR were played to the max. The clothes were in curvy shapes but always on a flat plane so that a coat or jacket from the hide appeared knife-thin.

There was something cartoonish about the rigid and robotic way of the models. That removed any conection between them and the clothes. Shapes were stretched and distorted

It was an extraordinary show with plane paper dolls shapes and in it vivid colors.

The clothes had hidden arms, they appeared at a powerful Funya Watanabe show.

The arms were hold straight to the body in a later passage of raincoats.

Those were absolutely new creations from a designer who would turn 70 this year.

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Is about color and structured volume, often created out of that construction. While there was certaintly high theatrical and artistic value in each piece.

The wool felt was a good technical choice for the floating two - dimensional shapes, but the design seeemed to disclaim design.

If Karl Lagerfeld is the leading talk artist of fashion, Kawakubo is the Mona Lisa.

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She insists that she’s not a feminist, and that her work has nothing to do with being a woman.

Her position is ambiguous; early in her career she embraced so much ideas.

As her works has matured, she has reached wholy different conclusions about what nourishes the active process.

IMAGINATION HAS NO AGE AND NO ENDING

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