Rei Kawakubo was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1942. She studied fine art and literature in college . In 1973 she established her own company, Comme des Garcons in Tokyo, starting up with womens clothes,she then added a mens line in 1978. Two years later, she moved to Paris and presented her fashion lines for the season, at the same time she open her first boutique in Paris.
Rei Kawakubo is also well known for her deconstructed approach to fashion, creating new shapes and defying traditional pattern cutting. Kawakubo takes a playful approach to textile machinery and is known to tamper with computerised,creating random flaws to escape from monotonous styles. Kawakubo sees fashion an optimistic art form, and she considers this very important in the world.
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| Voluminous,quilted Kimono style coat with Gold chain detail |
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| Commes des Garcons store interior Warsaw |
Rei Kawakubo's Protege is Junya Watanabe who is a well known japanese fashion designer producing lines for Comme des Garcons as well as her own eponymous label. Together their work is sculptural, often confrontational, and shows the use of innovative textiles and construction techniques.
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This is Comme des Garçons "Bad taste" Collection. It included puffballs of tulle in red and cotton-candy pink, hairnet veils, leopard-spot hats, and lattices of elasticized satin-frilled garter straps connecting the gaps between chopped-up garments. |
Rei Kawakubo is known for playing with texture and surfaces, manipulating fabric to create interesting shapes and forms.
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| Fabric manipulated to create a show stopping piece. |
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| Commes des Garcons evening dress 1992 |
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