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The Glass Archival Fashion Collectors series – Davil Tran: Issey Miyake, Comme Des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto and Undercover

January 28, 2021

FOR THE Glass Archival Fashion Collectors series, we spoke to some of the most influential collectors from across the world to hear more about how they started their collection, the purpose behind it, and their...

PFW AW20: Comme des Garçons

Augustine Hammond

March 1, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

THE GROUNDBREAKING vision of Rei Kawakubo at Comme des Garçons is something we rarely witness at fashion weeks across the capitals. Her most recent collection at PFW AW20 aptly titled Neo Future, continues her ...

PFWM AW20: Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

Simone Williams

January 17, 2020

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

CUSTOMARILY, the Comme des Garçons show at Paris Fashion week held joyful bursts of colour, and pushed the boundaries with a gleeful mash of tailoring, texture and tenacity, typical of a brand helmed by the bra...

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PFWM SS20: Comme des Garçons Homme Plus

Alicia Pountney

June 22, 2019

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

DIMMED lights by Thierry Dreyfus created a moody atmosphere at the PFWM SS20 Comme des Garçons show on Friday 21 June. This worked well for the initial darker looks – the limited light bounced off the satin thr...

PMFW AW19: Comme des Garçons

Lupe Baeyens

January 21, 2019

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

FINDING beauty in the dark, that was the title for the Comme des Garçons AW19 mens collection. Yet beauty wasn’t the only thing we found in the darkness, along with it we found hardware, velvet and mesh, a lot ...

PFWM SS19: Comme Des Garçons

Olga Kuznietsova

June 22, 2018

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

CHALLENGING the idea of traditional menswear, Comme Des Garçons continues to surprise fashionistas with the latest SS19 Men’s show at the Paris Fashion Week. The extravagant collection, full of bold colours and...

PFW AW18: Comme des Garçons

Todd Burns

March 4, 2018

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

TEETERING on the edge between fashion and art, Comme des Garçons showcased another incredibly avant-garde AW18 collection at PFW. Rei Kawakubo, founder of CdG, has never been one to shy away from challenging th...

09 Cubisme, Spring 2007, Rei Kawakubo - Comme des Garçons - Art of the In-Between

Glass reviews Rei Kawakubo/Comme Des Garçons: Art of the In-Between book

Livia Feltham

August 26, 2017

Books, Culture, Feature

GROUNDBREAKING. Enigmatic. Challenging. Loved. Rei Kawakubo would hate to be called a creative icon but there are few that will ever come close to her highly influential body of work. Her brand, Comme des Gar...

Paris MFW: Comme de Garçons Homme Plus SS18

Amrit Chana

June 26, 2017

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

IN May the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York hosted their annual Met Gala. This year celebrated and honoured the designer, Rei Kawakubo, and her label, Comme de Garçons. The brand is now for its eccentric ...

PFW SS17: Comme des Garçons

Lucrezia d'Acquarone

October 6, 2016

Fashion, Fashion Shows, News

COMME des Garçons’ PFW SS17 collection Invisible Clothes was accompanied by Henryk Gorecki’s Symphony nr 3, also known as Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. The atmosphere set by this melody was dark, intriguing and ...

Burberry Heads to Dover Street Market

Sonia Akther

March 24, 2016

Fashion, News

BURBERRY returns to its original Haymarket home for an exclusive collaboration with Dover Street Market to celebrate its traditional heritage. Burberry at Dover Street Market Home to the brand for almost 10...

Jean-Paul Goude and Antonio Lopez, Maternity dres for Grace Jones, 1979

Stylish revolt – how post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it

Peter Yeoh

October 16, 2015

Archive, Art, Feature

A Stylish Revolt – Post-modernism broke with the past by borrowing from it in irreverent ways. Peter Yeoh discusses the movement’s legacy with some of its most celebrated artists and design historian Glenn ...

Paris Menswear AW15: Comme Des Garçons

Livia Feltham

January 24, 2015

News

At Comme Des Garçons Rei Kawakubo has a wonderful knack for doing avant-garde with just a little dash of vaguely droll distinction and in a way that doesn't come off too overblown. Uniquely constructed Bermuda ...

The icon and the iconoclasts – celebrating the monogram

Roberta Lister

June 4, 2014

Avant Art, News

In the eyes of many, it’s the most instantly recognisable icon in fashion history. With the power to conjure a preconception in the most distant of fashion followers, the omnipresent Louis Vuitton monogram is u...

PFW AW14: Comme des Garçons

Livia Feltham

March 2, 2014

Avant Art, Culture, Fashion, Fashion Shows, Glass Models, News

The monster within reared its nightmarish head last night in Paris, the instance Rei Kawakubo tangled the body in cramping, strait-jacket creations which abide to the designer’s conceptualist testament that cha...

Comme de Garcons Homme Plus Collection

Maegan Gregoire

January 28, 2014

News

Japanese fashion designer and founder of Commes de Garcons Rei Kawakubo brought guests of her mens catwalk show in Paris this month back in a time machine to the Victorian and Edwardian period. A noticeable the...

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