Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons literature Anne Anlin Cheng

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a piece critically observing an exhibition at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris called “Savage souls: Symbolism in the art of the Baltic states”

Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons literature Anne Anlin ChengA revelatory look at the influential and enigmatic designer behind Comme des Garons. The great pantheon of fashion designers produces only a handful of creators who are masters of their mtier. Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garons is one of them. Widely recognized among her contemporaries as the most important and influential designer of the past forty years, she has, since her Paris debut in 1981, defined and transformed the aesthetics of our time. more