EDITOR' s LETTER

Dear Readers,

Have you heard of Rei Kawakubo? She is a highly respected and influential fashion designer known for her avant-garde creations and her propensity to subvert social conventions. She is the creator and creative director of the fashion house Comme des Garçons and is renowned for her distinctive approach to fashion design, which blurs the barriers between masculine and feminine, heritage and modernity, and beauty and ugliness.

She has many famous designs and collections that have marked her as an innovator and boundary-pusher in the fashion industry, like the “body meets dress, dress meets body” collection.

Join me on a discovery path to get to know this designer who changed the fashion industry.

Rei Kawakubo / COMME des Garcons

Art of the In-BEtween

The Costume Institute’s 2017 exhibition examines the work of fashion designer Rei Kawakubo. Known for her avant-garde designs and ability to change conventional notions of beauty, good taste, fashionability and identity, the thematic show features around 140 examples of her work. The gathered pieces date from as early as

1980s to her most recent collections. The objects are organised into 9 aesthetic expressions of interstitiality of her work, respectively Absence/ Presence, Design/Not Design, Fashion/Anti - Fashion, Model/Multiple, Then/Now, High/ Low, Self/Other, Object/ Subject and Clothes/ Not Clothes. She is the second living designer to receive a solo exhibit, after YSL in 1983.