Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons

By Dean Sudjic, Fourth Estate Ltd, London, 1990. First Edition. Text in English. 160 pages. 21 x 20,5 cm. Condition : Good (Traces of wear. Dedication on one page).

350€

“Since Rei Kawakubo mader her startling, monochrome debut at the Paris Fashion show in 1981, her challenging designs for Comme des Garçons have gripped the imagination of the fashion-buying public and press. Refusing to accept conventional stereotypes, Kawakubo wants nothing less than to reinvent the role of the fashion-designer. Her clothes, radical experiments in fabric and form, are closer to sculpture than to the traditional view of fashion as body packaging. With remarkable consistency and single-mindedness, Kawakubo has applied the same highly personal vision to every aspect of her international empire – to packaging, shop, interiors and even to furniture”.