COMME DES GARCONS
France Grand

France Grand: COMME DES GARCONS. NYC: Universe/Vendome, 1998. (Universe of Style series). A Fine hardcover book in a Fine Dust jacket: light wear to top edge. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.

6.5 x 9 hardcover book with 80 pages and many color and b/w reproductions of the work of Comme des Garçons.

Rei Kawakubo was born in Tokyo in 1942 and launched the Comme des Garçons label in Japan in 1969. She made an indelible impression on Paris in the early 1980s with ripped and knotted fabrics, sombre colours and asymmetrical detailing. Kawakubo has said 'What I do is not influenced by what has happened in fashion or culture. I work from obscure abstract images to create a fresh concept of beauty'.

One of fashion's great innovators, Junya Watanabe was born in Japan in 1961. In 1993, 'Junya Watanabe Comme des Garçons' was introduced in Paris, with the support of his mentor Rei Kawakubo, founder of Comme des Garçons. Watanabe's technical brilliance can be seen in the Techno Couture Collection on display. Each garment is made of hundreds of layers of polyester chintz stitched to form a complex fabric structure. Such imagination married to 'Science Non-Fiction', as he calls it, is typical of Watanabe's work.

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