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Video: Antifashion of the 90s

In the 90s emerges a wave: the antifashion trend. The deconstruction and material recycling shook the fashion world of glitzy sequins and has created an utterly different aesthetics, which current designers are still borrowing analogies from 20 years on. Source: Youtube, Rei

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In Pictures: Dover Street Market opens Los Angeles store

Four years after its debut in London, Dover Street Market has opened its sixth location in Los Angeles. The concept store, founded by Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo and her husband Adrian Joffe, is best known for its resemblance with an art gallery. Designed by Kawakubo herself, the LA location spans over 15,000 square feet and features corners...

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The top 7 Outstanding Fashion Duos of Past and Present

Collaboration makes the wheels of the fashion world spin which is why fashion duos are ubiquitous to our industry. The comfort of having someone to bounce ideas off, swallow the disappointments together, share the sacrifice, and pour you a stiff one at the end of a tough day cannot be overstated. Ideally either member has skills to offset the...

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Exploring Japan's influence on global fashion

Japan’s bountiful visual culture has long been a place to take inspiration from. The futuristic yet traditional culture has become a fascination among western communities, translating into our creative industries, particularly fashion. Described as “another planet” by trend watcher, Ronny de Vylder, the Japanese believe in everything they do,...

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Dover Street Market to open in LA

Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo has announced that the latest Dover Street Market will be launched in Los Angeles, expected to open in March 2018. In an exclusive interview with WWD, Adrian Joffe, Kawakubo’s husband and CEO of Comme des Garçons International and DSM said the decision to open in LA “just felt like the right time and the right...

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In Pictures: Themes of Kawakubo’s Art of the In-between

Over the years Rei Kawakubo has addressed many of life’s big questions in her work––art, marriage, death, spirituality––and some little ones too. Here are her thoughts with images from the Met’s exhibition of her work. On Gender: “Spiritually, there are no more differences between men and women. What is important is being human.” On Female...

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In Pictures: Themes of Kawakubo’s Art of the In-between

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Kawakubo's Tribe: Don't Comme for me unless I send for you

It wasn’t a regular Saturday morning at the Met Museum. Conflict erupted on the third floor, the antagonism cutting through the air in stark contrast with the sprigs of cherry blossom scenting the foyer. No one came to blows but the tension was palpable. Residual shade may still be thrown within this text. Whose side are you on? The Comme des...

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Rei Kawakubo gives us the art of in between

The first Monday in May marks the Superbowl of fashion: The Met Gala. Put on by Vogue's long reigning editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, a couple hundred celebrities and fashion industry insiders gather at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Manhattan's Upper East Side. This year's event was chaired by Wintour, Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, and Tom...

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Met Gala confirms Commes des Garçons's Rei Kawakubo as theme for next year

Due to its status as an one of the most elite fashion events, the Met Gala’s theme is carefully thought-out and premeditated in months in advance. For fashion industry insiders and Hollywood guests alike that attend the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the gala every year, the upcoming theme has been officially confirmed as designer Rei Kawakubo....

Apparel

Moynat to 'pop up' in New York's Dover Street Market

Days after Moynat, one of the oldest trunk makers in France, opened its first store outside Paris in London, Mayfair came news of a pop-up store opening in the US. Making its first move into the US market, Moynat is set to open a pop-up store in New York's Dover Street Market. The French luxury label will be joining the likes of J.W Anderson,...

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Dover Street Market to open in NYC

London's Dover Street Market is now heading to New York. The avant-garde multi-brand boutique, founded by Comme des Garcons and its founder Rei Kawakubo, is to open a seven storey, 20,000 sq ft international branch on Manhattan’s Lexington Avenue at 30th Street. It is due to open in December 2013, Adrian Joffe, chief executive officer at Comme...