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Why is Rei Kawakubo so moving?
The first textbook analyzing the secrets of COMME des GARÇONS
From unknown shapes and asymmetrical garment patterns, explore her avant-garde creative origin – "Unknown Origin"
Reviewed by Rei Kawakubo herself, designed by Tsuguya Inoue, and officially authorized!
"I like to mess with fabrics."
"I want to design clothes that have never been seen before."
"I'm not destroying; I'm simply adding new interpretations or possibilities."
"Better to be criticized than ignored."
— Rei Kawakubo
Roland Barthes states in his book "The Fashion System":
"There are only two terms that can describe style: one is 'fashionable,' and the other is 'outmoded.'"
To acknowledge that something non-existent in Western fashion is fashionable is tantamount to admitting that what one has previously constructed is "formerly fashionable,"
which is to say, outmoded, thereby leading one's own fashion into a dead end.
Since 1982, COMME des GARÇONS has received both extreme praise and criticism.
There is fervent support, believing that "Rei Kawakubo alone shines brightly in the fashion world,"
and also mockery and ridicule, believing she "has not seen the world."
Such extreme evaluations are perhaps the fate of the avant-garde.
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The first textbook analyzing the secrets of COMME des GARÇONS
From unknown shapes and asymmetrical garment patterns, explore her avant-garde creative origin – "Unknown Origin"
Reviewed by Rei Kawakubo herself, designed by Tsuguya Inoue, and officially authorized!
"I like to mess with fabrics."
"I want to design clothes that have never been seen before."
"I'm not destroying; I'm simply adding new interpretations or possibilities."
"Better to be criticized than ignored."
— Rei Kawakubo
Roland Barthes states in his book "The Fashion System":
"There are only two terms that can describe style: one is 'fashionable,' and the other is 'outmoded.'"
To acknowledge that something non-existent in Western fashion is fashionable is tantamount to admitting that what one has previously constructed is "formerly fashionable,"
which is to say, outmoded, thereby leading one's own fashion into a dead end.
Since 1982, COMME des GARÇONS has received both extreme praise and criticism.
There is fervent support, believing that "Rei Kawakubo alone shines brightly in the fashion world,"
and also mockery and ridicule, believing she "has not seen the world."
Such extreme evaluations are perhaps the fate of the avant-garde.
