Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons

Deyan Sudjic

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Author(s)

Deyan Sudjic

Publication, year

New York : Rizolli, 1990

Scope

160 Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

ISBN

0847811964

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The collections, the advertisements, and the shops by Comme des Garçons in the 1980's. Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, founder of Comme des Garcons, was born in Tokyo in 1942. Being untrained as a fashion designer, but having studied fine arts and literature, she conveys her ideas verbally to her patternmakers. In 1973, Kawakubo established her own company, Comme des Garcons Co., Ltd in Tokyo. Starting out with women's clothes, Kawakubo added a men's line in 1978. Two years later, she moved to Paris and presents her fashion lines there each season. At the same time she opened up her first boutique in Paris.

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Location

Cabinet 14 - 1: Mode

Remarks